[PATCH 2/2] DMAENGINE: driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells

viresh kumar viresh.linux at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 05:28:12 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij at stericsson.com> wrote:
> This creates a DMAengine driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells
> based on the implementation earlier submitted by Peter Pearse.
> This is working like a charm for memcpy and slave DMA to the PL011
> PrimeCell on the PB11MPCore.
>
> This DMA controller is used in mostly unmodified form in the ARM
> RealView and Versatile platforms, in the ST-Ericsson Nomadik, and
> in the ST SPEAr platform.
>
> It has been converted to use the header from the Samsung PL080
> derivate instead of its own defintions. The Samsungs have a custom
> driver in their mach-* folders though, atleast we can share the
> register definitions.
>
> Cc: Peter Pearse <peter.pearse at arm.com>
> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux at fluff.org>
> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>
> Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini at unipv.it>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at st.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at stericsson.com>
> ---
> Changes since last revision: this has now been successfully tested
> with PL011 UART on the PB11MPCore.
>
> It now uses the generic runtime slave control and not the PrimeCell
> extensions, and thus depends only on that patch set. With the previous
> patch to the header file this is cleanly separated from the ARM tree
> and any PrimeCell drivers and can go into the async_tx tree as it is
> without further dependencies.
> ---
>  drivers/dma/Kconfig        |    8 +
>  drivers/dma/Makefile       |    1 +
>  drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c   | 2027 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/amba/pl08x.h |  183 ++++
>  4 files changed, 2219 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/amba/pl08x.h
>

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at st.com>

regards,
viresh.



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