[PATCH 5/6] dma-mapping: support fsl-mc bus
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Mar 6 05:39:38 AEDT 2018
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 03:48:32PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Unfortunately for us, fsl-mc is conceptually rather like PCI in that it's
> software-discoverable and the only thing described in DT is the bus "host",
> thus we need the same sort of thing as for PCI to map from the child
> devices back to the bus root in order to find the appropriate firmware
> node. Worse than PCI, though, we wouldn't even have the option of
> describing child devices statically in firmware at all, since it's actually
> one of these runtime-configurable "build your own network accelerator"
> hardware pools where userspace gets to create and destroy "devices" as it
> likes.
I really hate the PCI special case just as much. Maybe we just
need a dma_configure method on the bus, and move PCI as well as fsl-mc
to it.
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