[PATCH v2 0/6] soc: ti: Add Keystone Navigator drivers

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue May 20 13:01:04 PDT 2014


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:57:50AM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> On Wednesday 23 April 2014 07:46 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > Here is an updated version of the Keystone Navigator drivers after
> > addressing comments from earlier version [1].
> > 
> > The QMSS found on Keystone SOCs is one of the main hardware sub
> > system which forms the backbone of the Keystone Multi-core Navigator.
> > QMSS consist of queue managers, packed-data structure processors(PDSP),
> > linking RAM, descriptor pools and infrastructure DMA.
> > 
> > After the discussion and alignment [2] on Navigator DMA, now we pair
> > this driver along with QMSS. Initially this driver was proposed as DMA
> > engine driver but since the hardware is not typical DMA engine and doesn't
> > comply with typical DMA engine driver needs, that approach was naked.
> > 
> > These two drivers works as infrastructure drivers for subsystems like
> > Ethernet subsystem, SRIO subsystem, Crypto Engines etc on Keystone
> > SOC families. Testing is done with NetCP(ethernet) subsystem drivers.
> > 
> > I would like to get these drivers merged in upcoming(3.16) window, so
> > any help in terms of review is appreciated. Thanks
> > 
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Kumar Gala <galak at codeaurora.org>
> > Cc: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> > 
> I plan to respin v3 of the series for the few device tree related
> comments I received from Rob H (thanks Rob). Can you please have a
> look and gsee if you have any comments so that I can include them
> in next version.

I am so far behind in patch review, please just redo them based on
other's comments and resend, don't wait for me.

greg k-h



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