From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v8 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:02:40 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170516043239.GH15061@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1494824695-21797-1-git-send-email-anup.patel@broadcom.com>
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:34:51AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides
> RAID5/6 offload.
>
> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM
> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to
> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements
> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels
> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox
> controller).
>
> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead
> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog
> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ
> disk position.
Applied, now
--
~Vinod
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-16 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-15 5:04 [PATCH v8 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support Anup Patel
2017-05-15 5:04 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position Anup Patel
2017-05-15 5:04 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome() Anup Patel
2017-05-15 5:04 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver Anup Patel
2017-05-15 5:04 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for " Anup Patel
2017-05-16 4:32 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
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