Re: Standalone SRIO Driver for Linux

Hi ,
     Thanks for the reply . i will try to share some of my code later .
Looking forward to ur ideas.

Regards,

S.Saravanan

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Bounine, Alexandre <
Alexandre.Bounine@idt.com> wrote:

 This should work. We use similar approach to test our mport HW drivers.**
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Alex.****

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*From:* Linuxppc-dev [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+alexandre.bounine=
idt.com@lists.ozlabs.org] *On Behalf Of *Saravanan S
*Sent:* Friday, July 13, 2012 2:16 AM
*To:* linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
*Subject:* Standalone SRIO Driver for Linux****

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Hi ,

      Iam currently working on the GE make DSP230 board consisting of Quad
PowerPC8640 nodes   interconnected by SRIO with Linux 2.6.34 . However the
only way to access the SRIO is through rionet facility . Our requirement is
to use the SRIO interconnect without the Ethernet overheads. This would
definitely enable higher speeds (though I cant find any throughput figures
for SRIO in Linux on the net ??? ).  My query is that whether any attempt
has been made  to develop a  standalone driver and API to access the
messaging  and doorbell services of SRIO . If no then request you to please
provide inputs on the same. From my study I have the following thoughts for
the driver :

a) Have a character device interface for user .
b) Basically use the rio support functions provided in rio.c like
rio_add_inb_buffer ,  rio_add_outb_message to transfer and receive messages
and add buffers .
c) Maintain a dedicated ring of buffers in the driver and transfer  data
to and from the buffer to user space .


Is this the right direction . Would really appreciate any inputs . thanks
in advance.

Regards,

S.Saravanan****


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