Dan Williams wrote: > > The ADMA (Asynchronous / Application Specific DMA) interface is proposed > as a cross platform mechanism for supporting system CPU offload engines. > The goal is to provide a unified asynchronous interface to support > memory copies, block xor, block pattern setting, block compare, CRC > calculation, cryptography etc. The ADMA interface should support a PIO > fallback mode allowing a given ADMA engine implementation to use the > system CPU for operations without a hardware accelerated backend. In > other words a client coded to the ADMA interface transparently receives > hardware acceleration for its operations depending on the features of > the underlying platform. > I'm wondering, how common is this ADMA acronym? I've been writing a MMC driver for some hardware where specifications aren't available. I have found one document which list an "ADMA system address" register, with a width of 64 bits. What are the odds of this being something that conforms to said interface? Rgds Pierre - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
