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

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Tue May 20 13:08:05 PDT 2014


On Tuesday 20 May 2014 04:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK. Thanks for quick response !!

regards,
Santosh




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