Re: [PATCH v7 00/15] dmaengine: dw-edma: HDMA support

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Tue Mar 16 2021 - 13:29:46 EST


On 18-02-21, 20:03, Gustavo Pimentel wrote:
> This patch series adds the HDMA support, as long the IP design has set
> the compatible register map parameter, which allows compatibility at
> some degree for the existing Synopsys DesignWare eDMA driver that is
> already available on the Kernel.
>
> The HDMA "Hyper-DMA" IP is an enhancement of the eDMA "embedded-DMA" IP.
>
> This new improvement comes with a PCI DVSEC that allows to the driver
> recognize and switch behavior if it's an eDMA or an HDMA, becoming
> retrocompatible, in the absence of this DVSEC, the driver will assume
> that is an eDMA IP.
>
> It also adds the interleaved support, since it will be similar to the
> current scatter-gather implementation.
>
> As well fixes/improves some abnormal behaviors not detected before, such as:
> - crash on loading/unloading driver
> - memory space definition for the data area and for the linked list space
> - scatter-gather address calculation on 32 bits platforms
> - minor comment and variable reordering

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod