Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support
From: Vinod Koul
Date: Tue Mar 21 2017 - 04:29:54 EST
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:13:24PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides
> RAID5/6 offload.
>
> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM
> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to
> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements
> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels
> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox
> controller).
>
> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead
> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog
> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ
> disk position.
>
> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset
> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support"
Okay I applied and was about to push when I noticed this :(
So what is the status of this..?
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~Vinod