Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] dmaengine: Add Freescale i.MX SDMA support

From: Lothar Waßmann
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 03:59:03 EST


Hi,

> This patch adds support for the Freescale i.MX SDMA engine.
>
> The SDMA engine is a scatter/gather DMA engine which is implemented
> as a seperate coprocessor. SDMA needs its own firmware which is
> requested using the standard request_firmware mechanism. The firmware
> has different entry points for each peripheral type, so drivers
> have to pass the peripheral type to the DMA engine which in turn
> picks the correct firmware entry point from a table contained in
> the firmware image itself.
> The original Freescale code also supports support for transfering
> data to the internal SRAM which needs different entry points to
> the firmware. Support for this is currently not implemented. Also,
> support for the ASRC (asymmetric sample rate converter) is skipped.
>
> I took a very simple approach to implement dmaengine support. Only
> a single descriptor is statically assigned to a each channel. This
> means that transfers can't be queued up but only a single transfer
> is in progress. This simplifies implementation a lot and is sufficient
> for the usual device/memory transfers.
>
> Changes since v1:
>
[...]
> +static int __devinit sdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
__devinit/__devexit is for hot-pluggable devices. I don't think the
SDMA controller is hot-pluggable, so __init/__exit could be used here.

> +{
> + int ret;
> + const struct firmware *fw;
> + const struct sdma_firmware_header *header;
> + const struct sdma_script_start_addrs *addr;
> + int irq;
> + unsigned short *ram_code;
> + struct resource *iores;
> + struct sdma_platform_data *pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
> + char *fwname;
> + int i;
> + dma_cap_mask_t mask;
> + struct sdma_engine *sdma;
> +
> + sdma = kzalloc(sizeof(*sdma), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!sdma)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + sdma->dev = &pdev->dev;
> +
> + iores = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> + irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> + if (!iores || irq < 0 || !pdata) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto err_irq;
> + }
> +
> + sdma->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> + if (IS_ERR(sdma->clk)) {
> + ret = PTR_ERR(sdma->clk);
> + goto err_clk;
> + }
> +
request_mem_region()?
> + sdma->regs = ioremap(iores->start, resource_size(iores));
> + if (!sdma->regs) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_ioremap;
> + }
> +
> +

> +static int __devexit sdma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
see above.


Lothar Waßmann
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