[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] soc: ti: k3: add navss ringacc driver

Vignesh R vigneshr at ti.com
Wed Jan 23 13:50:52 UTC 2019



On 23/01/19 12:26 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 08:33:55PM +0530, Vignesh R wrote:
> 
>> From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko at ti.com>
>>
>> The Ring Accelerator (RINGACC or RA) provides hardware acceleration to
>> enable straightforward passing of work between a producer and a consumer.
>> There is one RINGACC module per NAVSS on TI AM65x SoCs.
>>
>> The RINGACC converts constant-address read and write accesses to equivalent
>> read or write accesses to a circular data structure in memory. The RINGACC
>> eliminates the need for each DMA controller which needs to access ring
>> elements from having to know the current state of the ring (base address,
>> current offset). The DMA controller performs a read or write access to a
>> specific address range (which maps to the source interface on the RINGACC)
>> and the RINGACC replaces the address for the transaction with a new address
>> which corresponds to the head or tail element of the ring (head for reads,
>> tail for writes). Since the RINGACC maintains the state, multiple DMA
>> controllers or channels are allowed to coherently share the same rings as
>> applicable. The RINGACC is able to place data which is destined towards
>> software into cached memory directly.
>>
>> Supported ring modes:
>>  - Ring Mode
>>  - Messaging Mode
>>  - Credentials Mode
>>  - Queue Manager Mode
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko at ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
> 
> The code is fine, so:
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> 
> And after checking in Linux real quick, a follow-up to move the TI
> Keystone code from drivers/soc/keystone to drivers/soc/ti/ would be good
> for overall consistency.  I see why this new stuff is under
> drivers/soc/ti/ so we should move the other keystone stuff over to
> follow.
> 

I will do that as part of next version.

-- 
Regards
Vignesh


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