Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA

From: Sanjay R Mehta
Date: Tue Apr 20 2021 - 03:29:42 EST




On 3/22/2021 10:36 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
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> On 3/21/21 9:59 PM, Sanjay R Mehta wrote:
>> From: Sanjay R Mehta <sanju.mehta@xxxxxxx>
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>> Add support for AMD PTDMA controller. It performs high-bandwidth
>> memory to memory and IO copy operation. Device commands are managed
>> via a circular queue of 'descriptors', each of which specifies source
>> and destination addresses for copying a single buffer of data.
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>> Signed-off-by: Sanjay R Mehta <sanju.mehta@xxxxxxx>
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>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ptdma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/ptdma/Kconfig
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..c4f8c6f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/ptdma/Kconfig
>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>> +config AMD_PTDMA
>> + tristate "AMD PassThru DMA Engine"
>> + depends on X86_64 && PCI
>> + help
>> + Enable support for the AMD PTDMA controller. This controller
>> + provides DMA capabilities to performs high bandwidth memory to
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> to perform
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>> + memory and IO copy operation. It performs DMA transfer through
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> better: operations.
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>> + queue based descriptor management. This DMA controller is intended
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> queue-based
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>> + to use with AMD Non-Transparent Bridge devices and not for general
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> to be used with
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> for use with
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>> + purpose peripheral DMA.
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> --
> ~Randy

Thanks a lot Randy, I fix them all as per your suggestions.

And apologies for the delayed response.


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