Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] dmaengine: Add Freescale i.MX SDMA support

["Lothar Waßmann" <LW@KARO-electronics.de>]

Hi,

> This patch adds support for the Freescale i.MX SDMA engine.
> 
> The SDMA engine is a scatter/gather DMA engine which is implemented
> as a seperate coprocessor. SDMA needs its own firmware which is
> requested using the standard request_firmware mechanism. The firmware
> has different entry points for each peripheral type, so drivers
> have to pass the peripheral type to the DMA engine which in turn
> picks the correct firmware entry point from a table contained in
> the firmware image itself.
> The original Freescale code also supports support for transfering
> data to the internal SRAM which needs different entry points to
> the firmware. Support for this is currently not implemented. Also,
> support for the ASRC (asymmetric sample rate converter) is skipped.
> 
> I took a very simple approach to implement dmaengine support. Only
> a single descriptor is statically assigned to a each channel. This
> means that transfers can't be queued up but only a single transfer
> is in progress. This simplifies implementation a lot and is sufficient
> for the usual device/memory transfers.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> 
[...]
> +static int __devinit sdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
__devinit/__devexit is for hot-pluggable devices. I don't think the
SDMA controller is hot-pluggable, so __init/__exit could be used here.

> +{
> +	int ret;
> +	const struct firmware *fw;
> +	const struct sdma_firmware_header *header;
> +	const struct sdma_script_start_addrs *addr;
> +	int irq;
> +	unsigned short *ram_code;
> +	struct resource *iores;
> +	struct sdma_platform_data *pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
> +	char *fwname;
> +	int i;
> +	dma_cap_mask_t mask;
> +	struct sdma_engine *sdma;
> +
> +	sdma = kzalloc(sizeof(*sdma), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!sdma)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	sdma->dev = &pdev->dev;
> +
> +	iores = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> +	irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> +	if (!iores || irq < 0 || !pdata) {
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		goto err_irq;
> +	}
> +
> +	sdma->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> +	if (IS_ERR(sdma->clk)) {
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(sdma->clk);
> +		goto err_clk;
> +	}
> +
request_mem_region()?
> +	sdma->regs = ioremap(iores->start, resource_size(iores));
> +	if (!sdma->regs) {
> +		ret = -ENOMEM;
> +		goto err_ioremap;
> +	}
> +
> +

> +static int __devexit sdma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
see above.


Lothar Waßmann
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