linux-kernel - Re: Generic DMA-capable streaming device driver looking for home

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:50:11 -0400
From:   Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:     Jon Masters <jcm@...masters.org>,
        Alex Williams <alex.williams@...com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>,
        dmaengine <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic DMA-capable streaming device driver looking for home

On 4/27/2017 10:00 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 04/20/2017 06:10 PM, Alex Williams wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're writing a device driver and having some difficulty matching a
>> subsystem to the driver/device properties. Can anyone help with
>> direction?
>>
>> These are some basic properties:
>> 1) Device is used to carry generic data to/from userspace. It's a pair
>>    of dumb streams with one sink and one source for each direction (no
>>    addressable endpoints for the other side).
>> 2) Data goes to/from a DMA engine in an FPGA at high throughput.
>> 3) The driver enables userspace to queue multiple DMA-able buffers for
>>    asynchronous, pipelined data transfer. We currently use the
>>    videobuf2 API to provide the feature. We're not carrying video data
>>    in general, though.
>>
>> It's a piece of a software-defined radio system, and while it can carry
>> data from DACs/ADCs, the device is only a generic transport. It doesn't
>> know what data it's carrying, so neither would the driver.
>>
>> Some guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> This might be close enough to hidma that Sinan would have suggestions?
> 

I added dmaengine group to CC above. I have recently experimented
with a similar concept by hacking the rapidio code.

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c

It sounds like your code belongs to dmaengine.

> 
> 


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Sinan Kaya
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