Re: dma engine driver

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On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 05:20:51PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to write a dma engine driver for a simple dma engine.
> It uses 20 channels (some more recent IP cores also have more) and 8
> requesters. These channels are hard wired to the requesters.
> 
> Each channel needs a dma memory region with the descriptors, the
> descriptors are stored in an array. When I write a new descriptor to
> this memory the dma controller will read it after sometime and walk the
> array along.
> 
> Is there a DMA engine driver for a similar core?

Yes please see the source, few driver do have similar needs

> Do I have to use struct dma_slave_config->src_addr and ->dst_addr and
> when does it get called? Is there a state diagram which show when which
> callback is called?

Callback is called when the dma is completed by the driver to the client.
dma_slave_config is applicable for slave usages only, if you have noticed
the dma APIs do not provide a means of sending dma peripheral details so you
need to use the dma_slave_config for sending peripheral details.

> I already read this Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt and saw the
> presentation from free electrons.

Client.txt would be helpful too

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