26.01.2019 6:57, Sowjanya Komatineni пишет: > This patch adds DMA support for Tegra I2C. > > Tegra I2C TX and RX FIFO depth is 8 words. PIO mode is used for > transfer size of the max FIFO depth and DMA mode is used for > transfer size higher than max FIFO depth to save CPU overhead. > > PIO mode needs full intervention of CPU to fill or empty FIFO's > and also need to service multiple data requests interrupt for the > same transaction adding overhead on CPU for large transfers. > > DMA mode is helpful for Large transfers during downloading or > uploading FW over I2C to some external devices. > > Signed-off-by: Sowjanya Komatineni <[email protected]> > > ---
Seems there are good news, APB DMA could access IRAM. Quote from TRM: "The source may be DRAM or IRAM, and the destination location could be devices placed on APB Bus; or vice versa". Hence it shall be much more efficient to use IRAM for the DMA buffer, please consider that variant.
