dmaengine: pxa: add pxa dmaengine driver
This is a new driver for pxa SoCs, which is also compatible with the former mmp_pdma. The rationale behind a new driver (as opposed to incremental patching) was : - the new driver relies on virt-dma, which obsoletes all the internal structures of mmp_pdma (sw_desc, hw_desc, ...), and by consequence all the functions - mmp_pdma allocates dma coherent descriptors containing not only hardware descriptors but linked list information The new driver only puts the dma hardware descriptors (ie. 4 u32) into the dma pool allocated memory. This changes completely the way descriptors are handled - the architecture behind the interrupt/tasklet management was rewritten to be more conforming to virt-dma - the buffers alignment is handled differently The former driver assumed that the DMA channel stopped between each descriptor. The new one chains descriptors to let the channel running. This is a necessary guarantee for real-time high bandwid...
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