On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:35:43AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.k...@intel.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:17:21PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.k...@intel.com> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:13:24PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > >> >> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides > >> >> RAID5/6 offload. > >> >> > >> >> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM > >> >> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to > >> >> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements > >> >> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels > >> >> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox > >> >> controller). > >> >> > >> >> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead > >> >> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog > >> >> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ > >> >> disk position. > >> >> > >> >> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset > >> >> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support" > >> > > >> > Okay I applied and was about to push when I noticed this :( > >> > > >> > So what is the status of this..? > >> > >> PATCH2 is Acked but PATCH1 is under-review. Currently, its > >> v6 of that patchset. > >> > >> The only dependency on that patchset is the changes in > >> brcm-message.h which are required by this BCM-SBA-RAID > >> driver. > >> > >> @Jassi, > >> Can you please have a look at PATCH v6? > > > > And I would need an immutable branch/tag once merged. I am going to keep > > this series pending till then. > > The Broadcom FlexRM patchset is pickedup by Jassi and > can be found in mailbox-for-next branch of > git://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/fujitsu/integration > > Both patchset (Broadcom FlexRM patchset and this one) are > also available in sba-raid-v7 branch of > https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
Jassi, Can you provide an immutable branch/tag please for this, latter is preferred. Btw didn't find your tree in MAINTAINERS.. > > Regards, > Anup -- ~Vinod
