linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA

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Message-ID: <e33e0979-6688-0da8-c5a6-6b76073dbafc@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:06:00 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Sanjay R Mehta <Sanju.Mehta@....com>, vkoul@...nel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        Thomas.Lendacky@....com, Shyam-sundar.S-k@....com,
        Nehal-bakulchandra.Shah@....com, robh@...nel.org,
        mchehab+samsung@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA

On 3/21/21 9:59 PM, Sanjay R Mehta wrote:
> From: Sanjay R Mehta <sanju.mehta@....com>
> 
> Add support for AMD PTDMA controller. It performs high-bandwidth
> memory to memory and IO copy operation. Device commands are managed
> via a circular queue of 'descriptors', each of which specifies source
> and destination addresses for copying a single buffer of data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sanjay R Mehta <sanju.mehta@....com>
> ---

> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ptdma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/ptdma/Kconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..c4f8c6f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ptdma/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +config AMD_PTDMA
> +	tristate  "AMD PassThru DMA Engine"
> +	depends on X86_64 && PCI
> +	help
> +	  Enable support for the AMD PTDMA controller. This controller
> +	  provides DMA capabilities to performs high bandwidth memory to

	                            to perform

> +	  memory and IO copy operation. It performs DMA transfer through

better:	                     operations.

> +	  queue based descriptor management. This DMA controller is intended

	  queue-based

> +	  to use with AMD Non-Transparent Bridge devices and not for general

	  to be used with
or
	  for use with

> +	  purpose peripheral DMA.


-- 
~Randy