Re: linux DMA capabilities in MV64460
From: Brian Waite <hidden>
Date: 2006-03-06 13:33:28
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2005-12-22 · Re: linux DMA capabilities in MV64460 · KokHow Teh <hidden>
From: Brian Waite <hidden>
Date: 2006-03-06 13:33:28
I'm now looking seriously (and reluctantly!) at writing a DMA Controller Driver to supplement these functions, and I've started the process of getting an NDA from Marvell, so I can get their User Manual (and errata!).
You won't get very far without the user manual, then I think you will find it pretty easy to write the driver with the frameworks already in the kernel.
Can someone point me in the right direction to get me started? I need to come up the learning curve to find out where to start. How is a DMA controlled (from a device driver writer's perspective) when a third-party (i.e. in the bridge) DMA controller needs to do the work to get the data from a PCI Target into main memory? What kernel API should be provided by the DMA Controller Driver?
My first guess would be to follow something like Documentation/DMA-API.txt and Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
Any documentation, examples, similar device drivers, etc, would be appreciated. TIA,
You could look to followup that by groking arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c Finally, arch/ppc/syslib ppc4xx_dma.c seems to show an example of a low level driver. I didn't notice any platform dma controllers like MAG reccommended, but that should be a better way to go. Thanks Brian