Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] ARM/DT: edma: IP configuration from hardware and cleanups

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 04:26:09PM +0530, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> On Monday 19 May 2014 10:23 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > On 05/19/2014 04:06 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 May 2014 05:47 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Changes since v2:
> >>> - Comments from Sekhar and Arnd has been addressed best as I could.
> >>> - Use the CCCFG information in all cases instead of pdata provided information
> >>> - To achieve this I needed to do a bit more cleanup in this series
> >>> - In the documentation patch, retrain the old properties for reference
> >>> - Cleanups in the old davinci board files and removing edma_soc_info members
> >>>
> >>> Changes sicne v1:
> >>> - added missing patch to remove the memset from edma_of_parse_dt()
> >>>
> >>> We are requesting redundant information via DT for the driver since the very same
> >>> data is available in the HW: by reading and decoding the content of CCCFG
> >>> register we can get:
> >>> Number of channels: NUM_DMACH
> >>> Number of regions: NUM_REGN
> >>> Number of slots (PaRAM sets): NUM_PAENTRY
> >>> Number of TC/EQ: NUM_EVQUE
> >>>
> >>> So these does not need to be provided by the DT binding.
> >>>
> >>> The driver will no longer look for these properties from DT and they can be
> >>> removed from the binding documentation and from the dtsi files as well.
> >>> The change will not introduce regression when new kernel is booted using older
> >>> DTB (since we just ignore the mentioned properties).
> >>
> >> Applied all patches and pushed to branch v3.16/edma of:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nsekhar/linux-davinci.git
> >>
> >> Since the patches did not apply cleanly, please verify. I tested on
> >> DA850 EVM using MMC/SD as EDMA user.
> > 
> > The patches in this series looks OK in your branch.
> > However I can not find the following commits in there, which I have in linux-next:
> > c689a7b79c28 Merge remote-tracking branch 'slave-dma/next'
> > cdae05a0f0f7 dmaengine: edma: Make reading the position of active channels work
> > cf7eb979116c ARM: common: edma: Fix xbar mapping
> > 232b223d8281 dmaengine: edma: Set DMA_CYCLIC capability flag
> > 7cf2af90cd51 arm: common: edma: Save the number of event queues/TCs
> > 
> > They might come via different route...
> 
> Vinod,
> 
> Do you have an immutable branch based on which I can send this patch
> series to ARM-SoC? Some of the patches in the series depend on code that
> went through your tree.
yup, pls pull my topic/edma for these change. This branch will not be rebased.

> Or if you are comfortable taking this series through your tree, thats
> okay by me too. We are still waiting for acks from DT maintainers on the
> binding change patches.
Since these patchs are for ARM, I think they are best suited thru arm tree. If
you run into issues with that I cna merge this but with right ACKs...

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~Vinod
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