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Merge branch 'net-axienet-introduce-dmaengine'
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 01:52:24 +0000 (17:52 -0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 01:52:25 +0000 (17:52 -0800)
commit21612f52e429174394219a028ff20523117f53bc
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parenta0bc96c0cd6e61fcaebff34432791a4b5118fc68
parent6a91b846af85a24241decd686269e8e038eb13d1
Merge branch 'net-axienet-introduce-dmaengine'

Radhey Shyam Pandey says:

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net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine

The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate
with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind
this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine
driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the
ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes
it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA
without any modification.

The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during
the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further
enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases.

Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional
features are very welcome!

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c
[2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c#L238
[3]: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/00367.html
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221124102745.2620370-1-sarath.babu.naidu.gaddam@amd.com
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1700074613-1977070-1-git-send-email-radhey.shyam.pandey@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>