On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:21:39 +0530 Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote: > The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate > with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind > this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine > driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the > ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes > it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA > without any modification. > > The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during > the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further > enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases. > > Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional > features are very welcome! Vinod, any preference on how this gets merged? Since we're already at -rc5 if the dmaengine parts look good to you taking those in for 6.6 and delaying the networking bits until 6.7 could be on the table? Possibly?
