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From: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt•com>
To: Oliver Rutsch <orutsch@sympatec•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: MPC5200, PLX9054 PCI Card - stalled DMA transfers
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:20:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EFFFA5.7080004@246tNt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EFBF91.7080304@sympatec.com>


>> Anyway, manually setup a DMA transfer and convince yourself that
>> you know which bits to twiddle, then figure out why the driver
>> code isn't doing as its asked.
>>
>>     
>
> I've done so without success. The driver seems to make everything 
> correct. A block DMA is fairly simple on the 9054, so I think there must 
> be a hardware reason for this.
> Has anybody ever used a PCI card on the MPC5200 which has its own 
> busmaster controller? I think most people use the BestComm DMA 
> controller on the MPC5200, right?
>   
No, most PCI card that need big xfer uses bus mater. A ide card, a
network card, ...  all most certainly use it.

Bestcomm on the 5200 is for the SoC internal peripheral mainly.


Sylvain

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-01 12:44 MPC5200, PLX9054 PCI Card - stalled DMA transfers Oliver Rutsch
2007-03-01 22:48 ` David Hawkins
2007-03-08  7:47   ` Oliver Rutsch
2007-03-08 12:20     ` Sylvain Munaut [this message]
2007-03-09 17:03     ` David Hawkins

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