From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:56:29 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] soc: ti: k3: add navss ringacc driver In-Reply-To: <20190122150359.15919-3-vigneshr@ti.com> References: <20190122150359.15919-1-vigneshr@ti.com> <20190122150359.15919-3-vigneshr@ti.com> Message-ID: <20190122185629.GP28173@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 08:33:55PM +0530, Vignesh R wrote: > From: Grygorii Strashko > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Vignesh R The code is fine, so: Reviewed-by: Tom Rini 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. -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: