[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] 85xx/86xx dma updates

[Timur Tabi]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ira Snyder <iws at ovro.caltech.edu> wrote:

> I've been doing some Linux work with the 83xx DMA controller. The only
> real differences between the 83xx/85xx controller are the register
> endianness and snoop bits. The 83xx controller's registers are all
> little-endian, while the 85xx is all big-endian.

83xx DMA = Elo DMA controller
85xx/86xx DMA = Elo Plus DMA controller

The Elo Plus supports list descriptors in addition to link
descriptors.  The Elo only supports link descriptors.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale