[PATCH RFCv7 0/2] CARMA Board Support

[Ira W. Snyder]

Hello everyone,

This is the seventh posting of these drivers, taking into account comments
from earlier postings. I've made sure that the drivers both pass checkpatch
without any errors or warnings. I would appreciate as much review as you
can offer, so that these can get into the next merge cycle. They've been
sitting outside mainline for far too long.

RFCv6 -> RFCv7:
- reference count private data structure (to support unbind)
- use #defines instead of hex values for registers
- keep lines <=80 characters

RFCv5 -> RFCv6:
- change locking in several functions
- use list_move_tail() to simplify code
- remove unused helper functions

RFCv4 -> RFCv5:
- remove unecessary locking per review comments
- do not clobber return values from *_interruptible()
- explicitly track buffer DMA mapping
- use #defines instead of raw hex addresses
- change enable sysfs attribute to root-writeable only

RFCv3 -> RFCv4:
- updates for DATA-FPGA version 2

RFCv2 -> RFCv3:
- use miscdevice framework (removing the carma class)
- add bitfile readback capability to the programmer

RFCv1 -> RFCv2:
- change comments to kerneldoc format
- Kconfig improvements
- use the videobuf_dma_sg API in the programmer
- updates for Freescale DMAEngine DMA_SLAVE API changes

KNOWN ISSUES:
- untested with a setup that can generate interrupts (will get access soon)
- does not handle runtime "unbind"

Information about the CARMA board:

The CARMA board is essentially an MPC8349EA MDS reference design with a
1GHz ADC and 4 high powered data processing FPGAs connected to the local
bus. It is all packed into a compact PCI form factor. It is used at the
Owens Valley Radio Observatory as the main component in the correlator
system.

For board information, see:
http://www.mmarray.org/~dwh/carma_board/index.html

For DATA-FPGA register layout, see:
http://www.mmarray.org/memos/carma_memo46.pdf

These drivers are the necessary pieces to get the data processing FPGAs
working and producing data. Despite the fact that the hardware is custom
and we are the only users, I'd still like to get the drivers upstream.
Several people have suggested that this is possible.

Some further patches will be forthcoming. I have a driver for the LED
subsystem and the PPS subsystem. The LED register layout is expected to
change soon, so I won't post the driver until that is finished. The PPS
driver will be posted seperately from this patch series; it is very
generic.

Thanks to everyone who has provided comments on earlier versions!

Ira W. Snyder (2):
  misc: add CARMA DATA-FPGA Access Driver
  misc: add CARMA DATA-FPGA Programmer support

 drivers/misc/Kconfig                    |    1 +
 drivers/misc/Makefile                   |    1 +
 drivers/misc/carma/Kconfig              |   18 +
 drivers/misc/carma/Makefile             |    2 +
 drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga-program.c | 1141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c         | 1433 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 2596 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/carma/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/carma/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga-program.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c

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