On 08-08-23, 15:53, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > 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? Yep, I am picking the dmaengine bits -- ~Vinod
