[PATCH V12 3/7] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA management driver

Sinan Kaya
2016-01-15T22:47:52Z

On 1/15/2016 12:32 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> Do you have a link to that? Seeing it would help to ease my concerns.
>> >
>> > The QEMU driver has not been posted yet. As far as I know, it just discovers the memory
>> > resources on the platform object and creates mappings for the guest machine only.
>> >
>> > Shanker Donthineni and Vikram Sethi will post the QEMU patch later.
> Then may I suggest you both synchronize your submissions? I'd really
> like to hear from the QEMU maintainers that they are satisfied with that
> side of the story as well.

The HIDMA QEMU driver is also based on VFIO platform driver in QEMU. It is not a new concept
or new framework. All tried and tested solutions.

The driver below is already using this feature. HIDMA is no exception.
I have verified functionality of HIDMA linux driver with HIDMA QEMU driver already.

https://lxr.missinglinkelectronics.com/qemu/hw/arm/sysbus-fdt.c#L67
https://lxr.missinglinkelectronics.com/qemu/hw/vfio/calxeda-xgmac.c#L18
https://lxr.missinglinkelectronics.com/qemu/include/hw/vfio/vfio-calxeda-xgmac.h

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Sinan Kaya