From: Of Vince Bridgers > Hello Florian, thank you for taking the time to comments. My responses inline. > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Vince, > > > > It might help reviewing the patches by breaking the patches into: > > > > - the SGDMA bits > > - the MSGDMA bits > > - the Ethernet MAC driver per-se > > I'll break down the next submission. > > > > > BTW, it does look like the SGDMA code could/should be a dmaengine driver? > > I did consider this, but after studying the dmaengine api I found the > API definitions and semantics were not a match to the way the SGDMA > and MSGDMA behave collectively. Moreover, I could not find an example > of an Ethernet driver that made use of the dmaengine API - only the > Micrel driver seems to use it. When studying what components actually > used the dmaengine API I concluded the dmaengine API was defined for > use cases different than Ethernet. It is probably reasonable to expect that the SGDMA is instantiated for the sole use of the ethernet block - it probably wants two of them, and then treat it as part of the ethernet hardware. I've not looked at the TSE or SGDMA, but I suspect you could require that they be placed at adjacent Avalon addresses. So that they are effectively a single device. Qsys might even let you define such a beast. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
