2023-09-04 08:32:12

by Neal Gompa

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Apple SIO driver

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 1:00 PM Martin Povišer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> see attached a driver for the SIO coprocessor found on recent Apple
> SoCs. This coprocessor provides general DMA services, it can feed
> many peripherals but so far it seems it will only be useful for
> audio output over HDMI/DisplayPort. So the driver here only supports
> the DMA_CYCLIC mode of transactions with the focus being on audio.
> There's a downstream prototype ALSA driver the DMA driver is being
> tested against.
>
> Some of the boilerplate code in implementing the dmaengine interface
> was lifted from apple-admac.c. Among other things these two drivers
> have in common that they implement the DMA_CYCLIC regime on top of
> hardware/coprocessor layer supporting linear transactions only.
>
> The binding schema saw two RFC rounds before and has a reviewed-by
> from Rob.
> https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/[email protected]
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
> --
>
> Changes since v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/[email protected]/T/#t
> - move to using virt-dma
> - drop redundant cookie field from `sio_tx`
> - use DECLARE_BITMAP for `allocated` in sio_tagdata
>
> Martin Povišer (2):
> dt-bindings: dma: apple,sio: Add schema
> dmaengine: apple-sio: Add Apple SIO driver
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/dma/apple,sio.yaml | 111 +++
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +
> drivers/dma/Kconfig | 11 +
> drivers/dma/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/dma/apple-sio.c | 868 ++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 993 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/apple,sio.yaml
> create mode 100644 drivers/dma/apple-sio.c
>
> --
> 2.38.3
>
>

Series looks reasonable to me, though this is something I'm more new
at looking at...

Acked-by: Neal Gompa <[email protected]>


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