[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3 v2] 83xx: Default to using DMA to initialize SDRAM

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <1247582520.30723.4.camel at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
>
> There was some discussion about whether to use DMA to initialize SDRAM
> on the 83xx architecture (which this patch does).  After some
> benchmarking by Ira Synder it turns out that using DMA is actually
> slower than using the initial method of a series of 64-bit writes.  Thus
> I'm assuming Kim would prefer not to use DMA and thus this patch should
> be discarded.
> 
> Kim, let me know if this is the case and I'll resubmit a patch just to
> fix the build error.  Patches 2 and 3 are still applicable even if we
> discard patch 1.

We need at least the include/asm-ppc/config.h changes as these fix a
real build problem.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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