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authorHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>2008-07-08 14:59:35 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2008-07-08 14:59:35 -0400
commitdc0ee6435cb92ccc81b14ff28d163fecc5a7f120 (patch)
tree0a494946593f36516a997f64cb299d898cdf463f /README
parente1d181efb14a93cf263d6c588a5395518edf3294 (diff)
dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface
This patch adds the necessary interfaces to the DMA Engine framework to use functionality found on most embedded DMA controllers: DMA from and to I/O registers with hardware handshaking. In this context, hardware hanshaking means that the peripheral that owns the I/O registers in question is able to tell the DMA controller when more data is available for reading, or when there is room for more data to be written. This usually happens internally on the chip, but these signals may also be exported outside the chip for things like IDE DMA, etc. A new struct dma_slave is introduced. This contains information that the DMA engine driver needs to set up slave transfers to and from a slave device. Most engines supporting DMA slave transfers will want to extend this structure with controller-specific parameters. This additional information is usually passed from the platform/board code through the client driver. A "slave" pointer is added to the dma_client struct. This must point to a valid dma_slave structure iff the DMA_SLAVE capability is requested. The DMA engine driver may use this information in its device_alloc_chan_resources hook to configure the DMA controller for slave transfers from and to the given slave device. A new operation for preparing slave DMA transfers is added to struct dma_device. This takes a scatterlist and returns a single descriptor representing the whole transfer. Another new operation for terminating all pending transfers is added as well. The latter is needed because there may be errors outside the scope of the DMA Engine framework that may require DMA operations to be terminated prematurely. DMA Engine drivers may extend the dma_device, dma_chan and/or dma_slave_descriptor structures to allow controller-specific operations. The client driver can detect such extensions by looking at the DMA Engine's struct device, or it can request a specific DMA Engine device by setting the dma_dev field in struct dma_slave. dmaslave interface changes since v4: * Fix checkpatch errors * Fix changelog (there are no slave descriptors anymore) dmaslave interface changes since v3: * Use dma_data_direction instead of a new enum * Submit slave transfers as scatterlists * Remove the DMA slave descriptor struct dmaslave interface changes since v2: * Add a dma_dev field to struct dma_slave. If set, the client can only be bound to the DMA controller that corresponds to this device. This allows controller-specific extensions of the dma_slave structure; if the device matches, the controller may safely assume its extensions are present. * Move reg_width into struct dma_slave as there are currently no users that need to be able to set the width on a per-transfer basis. dmaslave interface changes since v1: * Drop the set_direction and set_width descriptor hooks. Pass the direction and width to the prep function instead. * Declare a dma_slave struct with fixed information about a slave, i.e. register addresses, handshake interfaces and such. * Add pointer to a dma_slave struct to dma_client. Can be NULL if the DMA_SLAVE capability isn't requested. * Drop the set_slave device hook since the alloc_chan_resources hook now has enough information to set up the channel for slave transfers. Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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