Support for configurable PCIe endpoint

Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-04T11:13:06Z

On Thursday, August 4, 2016 3:32:01 PM CEST Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 August 2016 07:09 PM, Joao Pinto wrote:
> >
> > You are rising a topic that we are also addressing in Synopsys.
> >
> > For the PCIe RC hardware validation we are currently using the standard
> > pcie-designware and pcie-designware-plat drivers.
> >
> > For the Endpoint we have to use an internal software package. Its main purpose
> > is to initialize the IP registers, eDMA channels and make data transfer to prove
> > that the everything is working properly. This is done in 2 levels, a custom
> > driver built and loaded and an application that makes some ioctl to the driver
> > executing some interesting functions to check the Endpoint status and make some
> > data exchange.
>
> hmm.. the platform I have doesn't have a DMA in PCIe IP
> (http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruhz6g/spruhz6g.pdf). So in your testing does the
> EP access RC memory? i.e the driver in the RC allocates memory from it's DDR
> and gives it's DDR address to the EP. The EP then transfers data to this
> address. (This is a typical use case with ethernet PCIe cards). IIUC that's not
> simple with configurable EPs. I'd like to know more about your testing though.

What's the difference between using the EDMA on that chip or a DMA engine
that is part of the PCIe bridge?

Arnd