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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/atmel-dma.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dmaengine.txt8
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/atmel-dma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/atmel-dma.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3c046ee6e8b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/atmel-dma.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+* Atmel Direct Memory Access Controller (DMA)
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should be "atmel,<chip>-dma"
+- reg: Should contain DMA registers location and length
+- interrupts: Should contain DMA interrupt
+
+Examples:
+
+dma@ffffec00 {
+ compatible = "atmel,at91sam9g45-dma";
+ reg = <0xffffec00 0x200>;
+ interrupts = <21>;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine.txt
index 94b7e0f96b38..bbe6cb3d1856 100644
--- a/Documentation/dmaengine.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dmaengine.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ The slave DMA usage consists of following steps:
slave_sg - DMA a list of scatter gather buffers from/to a peripheral
dma_cyclic - Perform a cyclic DMA operation from/to a peripheral till the
operation is explicitly stopped.
+ interleaved_dma - This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave
+ address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver.
+ Various types of operations could be expressed by setting
+ appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members.
A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for
the given transaction.
@@ -89,6 +93,10 @@ The slave DMA usage consists of following steps:
struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len,
size_t period_len, enum dma_data_direction direction);
+ struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *(*device_prep_interleaved_dma)(
+ struct dma_chan *chan, struct dma_interleaved_template *xt,
+ unsigned long flags);
+
The peripheral driver is expected to have mapped the scatterlist for
the DMA operation prior to calling device_prep_slave_sg, and must
keep the scatterlist mapped until the DMA operation has completed.