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@@ -181,13 +181,6 @@ Currently, the types available are:
- Used by the client drivers to register a callback that will be
called on a regular basis through the DMA controller interrupt
- * DMA_SG
- - The device supports memory to memory scatter-gather
- transfers.
- - Even though a plain memcpy can look like a particular case of a
- scatter-gather transfer, with a single chunk to transfer, it's a
- distinct transaction type in the mem2mem transfers case
-
* DMA_PRIVATE
- The devices only supports slave transfers, and as such isn't
available for async transfers.
@@ -395,6 +388,13 @@ where to put them)
when DMA_CTRL_REUSE is already set
- Terminating the channel
+ * DMA_PREP_CMD
+ - If set, the client driver tells DMA controller that passed data in DMA
+ API is command data.
+ - Interpretation of command data is DMA controller specific. It can be
+ used for issuing commands to other peripherals/register reads/register
+ writes for which the descriptor should be in different format from
+ normal data descriptors.
General Design Notes
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