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Radhey Shyam Pandey says: ==================== net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA without any modification. The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases. Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional features are very welcome! [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c#L238 [3]: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/00367.html [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221124102745.2620370-1-sarath.babu.naidu.gaddam@amd.com ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1700074613-1977070-1-git-send-email-radhey.shyam.pandey@amd.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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