[RFC 2/4] dma: add dmaengine driver for Samsung s3c24xx SoCs

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Heiko Stübner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013, 14:47:19 schrieb Linus Walleij:
>> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Heiko Stübner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
>> > Conceptually the s3c24xx-dma feels like a distant relative of the pl08x
>> > with numerous virtual channels being mapped to a lot less physical ones.
>> > The driver therefore borrows a lot from the amba-pl08x driver in this
>> > regard. Functionality-wise the driver gains a memcpy ability in addition
>> > to the slave_sg one.
>> >
>> > The driver currently only supports the "newer" SoCs which can use any
>> > physical channel for any dma slave. Support for the older SoCs where
>> > each channel only supports a subset of possible dma slaves will have to
>> > be added later.
>> >
>> > Tested on a s3c2416-based board, memcpy using the dmatest module and
>> > slave_sg partially using the spi-s3c64xx driver.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>>
>> So have I understood correctly if I assume that *some* S3C
>> variants, i.e. this: arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/dma.c
>> have a vanilla, unmodified, or just slightly modified
>> PL08x block, while this DMAC is something probably based on
>> the PL08x where some ASIC engineer has had a good time hacking
>> around in the VHDL code to meet some feature requirements.
>> Correct? Or plausible guess?
>
> You're guess is at good as mine :-) . The public s3c64xx (ARM11 based)
> documentation says that it is using s PL080 as dma controller while the
> s3c24xx (ARM9 based) SoCs have this one, which doesn't come with any label in
> the manuals.
> Similar to the s3c64xx using a vic, while the s3c24xx uses something
> homegrown.
>
> The relationship description was more based on the concepts used, i.e. the
> virtual channel concept and general handling of dma transfers feel somehow
> similar - as I said these are my first steps into this, so I still need to
> understand a lot.

OK then, a separate driver seems required, will look a bit closer at
the patch as such.

Yours,
Linus Walleij