[RFC PATCH 0/2] dma: DMA slave device bringup tool
From: Alexander Gordeev
Date: Sat Feb 21 2026 - 08:22:58 EST
Hi All,
This is a custom tool that can be used to bring up DMA slave devices.
It consists of a user-level utility and a companion device driver that
communicate via IOCTL.
The tool is likely need some polishing, but I would like first get some
feedback to ensure there is interest.
I also tested it only on x86 and have little idea on how channel names
on other architectures look like. That could especially impact the way
dma_request_channel() treats user-provided target DMA channel names, as
exposed via /sys/class/dma.
Thanks!
Alexander Gordeev (2):
dmaengine/dma-slave: DMA slave device xfer passthrough driver
tools/dma-slave: DMA slave device transfer utility
drivers/dma/Kconfig | 7 +
drivers/dma/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/dma/dma-slave.c | 246 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/dma-slave.h | 30 +++
tools/Makefile | 11 +-
tools/dma/Makefile | 20 ++
tools/dma/dma-slave.c | 321 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
7 files changed, 631 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/dma/dma-slave.c
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/dma-slave.h
create mode 100644 tools/dma/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/dma/dma-slave.c
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