From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Cc: g r1x <gr1xmail@gmail•com>, David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: How to access DCR registers in powerpc440gx? Got err when use macro def in Linux kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:59:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909141459.43371.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090911053106.GB11840@yookeroo.seuss>
On Friday 11 September 2009, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:14:55PM +0800, g r1x wrote:
> > Now, I'm writing a DMA driver on powerpc
> > 440gx platform(2.6.26.5), as the only way to set up DMA Controller is
> > to access it's dcr registers with 'mfdcr' and 'mtdcr'.
> >
> > I've found some dma code in Linux kernel 2.6.26.5, so I copy the code
> > u wrote to my driver module directory, and include them, but when I
> > compile my driver, gcc complains following err messages:
>
> In current kernels we have some DCR macros that use a big table of
> pre-generated instructions in order to allow accesses to runtime
> computed DCR numbers. But either they didn't exist in 2.6.26, or they
> have a different name, I don't remember.
The portable way to access DCRs is the API from asm/dcr.h, using dcr_map(),
dcr_read() and dcr_write().
Arnd <><
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-10 17:24 How to access DCR registers in powerpc440gx? Got err when use macro def in Linux kernel g r1x
2009-09-11 4:14 ` g r1x
2009-09-11 5:31 ` David Gibson
2009-09-14 12:59 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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