Hi Greg,

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:39:05PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On 09/10/12 19:07, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
>> [CCing lkml, linux-ppc, netdev, linux-m68k]
>>
>> Hello kernel sources architects
>>
>> I have a working driver for the m54xx FEC ethernet driver that I
>> would like to integrate in the kernel tree.  Problems are that
>> - this driver needs an associated DMA driver (provided by FreeScale)
>> wich is not dma-engine enabled
>> - they're are already many fec drivers in the kernel tree, and
>> at least one, fec_mpc52xx.c, seems to be very similar (information
>> below), to the one for the mcf54xx, except it uses a differently
>> named associated DMA driver (BestComm/SmartDma/SDMA) which is also
>> not dma-engine enabled, and even kept hidden in /arch/powerpc where
>> it is inaccessible when compiling for m68k.  The underlying DMA part
>> from Freescale however seems similar to the one used in the
>> m54xx. (again, see information below)
>>
>> So, now I am lost, what should I do ?
>>
>> The current state of my patches
>> [http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2012-September/052147.html]
>> is pushing the freescale provided MCD_DMA dma driver to /drivers/dma,
>> without adding the dma-engine compatibility layer, and adding the specific
>> fec_m54xx ethernet driver to /drivers/net/ethernet/freescale
>
> Do you get any responses?
> I didn't see any...

No, and none also about my simpler patch moving arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm
to drivers/dma/bestcomm (except a private and useful one telling me how to
set '-M' option as default for 'git format-patch'), but at least this simpler
patch seems to be in a wait bucket at
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/.

Regards

Philippe

PS: -M as default for 'git format-patch':

put
        [diff]
                renames = true
in .git/config

>
> Regards
> Greg
>
>
>
>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:12:44PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>
>>> On 05/10/12 01:03, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:56:01PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:33:32PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My biggest concern is the amount of MCD/DMA support code. And it is
>>>>>> all done quite differently to everything else in the kernel. We may
>>>>>> get a bit of push back from kernel folk who look after DMA.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, there is already a similar code in 
>>>>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm
>>>>> (also from freescale, maybe an identical part, but I did not find any
>>>>> usable doc), but the powerpc folks kept that hidden in the arch/powerpc
>>>>> tree, instead of installing it in drivers/dma.
>>>>
>>>> The MCD DMA or DMA FEC code from freescale has a comment implying that
>>>> this
>>>> was first used in the MPC8220 part.  And Montavista has a MPC8220 port,
>>>> but
>>>> I did not find it, so I do not know where they installed the MCD DMA
>>>> driver.
>>>
>>> Ok, looks like there is a bit a variance in all this.
>>
>> I also began to read the mpc5200 user's guide parts about the fec and
>> BestComm/SmartDma/SDMA (not sure which one is the official FreeScale name)
>> and they look very similar, but not identical, to their m54xx 
>> counterparts.
>>
>> It seems possible to make the fec_mpc52xx.c driver work for the m54xx
>> but that needs at least:
>> - moving some files or part of them from /arch/powerpc/sysdev and
>>    /arch/powerpc/include/asm to /drivers/dma and /include/linux,
>> - renaming the fec_mpc52xx files to a more sensible name,
>> - providing out_be32 and in_be32 in /arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h,
>> - and then unifying the interface to BestComm/SmartDma/SDMA and MCD_DMA
>>    in mcf_52xx.c.
>>
>> An additional problem is that the freescale docs for powerpcs and for
>> coldfires do not use the same mnemonics for the same registers.
>>
>> e.g. FEC registers
>>      offset  MPC5200         MCF5484
>>      ======  =======         =======
>>      000     FEC_ID          n/a
>>      004     IEVENT          EIR
>>      008     IMASK           EIMR
>>      010     R_DES_ACTIVE    n/a
>>      014     X_DES_ACTIVE    n/a
>>      024     ECNTRL          ECR
>>      040     MII_DATA        MDATA
>>      044     MII_SPEED       MSCR
>>      064     MIB_CONTROL     MIBC
>>      084     R_CNTRL         RCR
>>      088     R_HASH          RHR
>>      0C4     X_CNTRL         TCR
>>      0E4     PADDR1          PALR
>>      0E8     PADDR2          PAHR
>>      0EC     OP_PAUSE        OPD
>>      118     IADDR1          IAUR
>>      11C     IADDR1          IALR
>>      120     GADDR1          GAUR
>>      124     GADDR2          GALR
>>      144     X_WMRK          FECTFWR
>>      184     RFIFO_DATA      FECRFDR
>>      188     RFIFO_STATUS    FECRFSR
>>      18C     RFIFO_CONTROL   FECRFCR
>>      190     RFIFO_LRF_PTR   FECRLRFP
>>      194     RFIFO_LWF_PTR   FECRLWFP
>>      198     RFIFO_ALARM     FECRFAR
>>      19C     RFIFO_RDPTR     FECRFRP
>>      1A0     RFIFO_WRPTR     FECRFWP
>>      1A4     TFIFO_DATA      FECTFDR
>>      1A8     TFIFO_STATUS    FECTFSR
>>      1AC     TFIFO_CONTROL   FECTFCR
>>      1B0     TFIFO_LRF_PTR   FECTLRFP
>>      1B4     TFIFO_LWF_PTR   FECTLWFP
>>      1B8     TFIFO_ALARM     FECTFAR
>>      1BC     TFIFO_RDPTR     FECTFRP
>>      1C0     TFIFO_WRPTR     FECTFWP
>>      1C4     RESET_CNTRL     FECFRST
>>      1C8     XMIT_FSM        FECCTCWR
>>
>>> Probably the best thing to do is post the patches on the linux kernel
>>> mailing list then, asking for direction on a dma driver.
>>>
>>> I have no problem with it going into the arch/m68k area. So that is
>>> always an option.
>>
>> For the dma engines, the similarity is also obvious.  For example, find
>> below side by side mpc52xx and m54xx definitions for the
>> main DMA registers :
>>
>> from mpc52xx.h                               from MCD_dma.h
>> /* SDMA */                           /* MCD_DMA */
>> struct mpc52xx_sdma {                        struct dmaRegs {
>>   u32 taskBar; /* 0x00 */                    u32 taskbar;
>>   u32 currentPointer; /* 0x04 */                     u32 currPtr;
>>   u32 endPointer; /* 0x08 */                 u32 endPtr;
>>   u32 variablePointer; /* 0x0c */            u32 varTablePtr;
>>
>>   u8 IntVect1; /* 0x10 */                    u16 dma_rsvd0;
>>   u8 IntVect2; /* 0x11 */
>>   u16 PtdCntrl; /* 0x12 */                   u16 ptdControl;
>>
>>   u32 IntPend; /* 0x14 */                    u32 intPending;
>>   u32 IntMask; /* 0x18 */                    u32 intMask;
>>
>>   u16 tcr[16]; /* 0x1c .. 0x3a */            u16 taskControl[16];
>>
>>   u8 ipr[32]; /* 0x3c .. 0x5b */                     u8  priority[32];
>>
>>   u32 cReqSelect; /* 0x5c */                 u32 initiatorMux;
>>   u32 task_size0; /* 0x60 */                 u32 taskSize0;
>>   u32 task_size1; /* 0x64 */                 u32 taskSize1;
>>   u32 MDEDebug; /* 0x68 */                   u32 dma_rsvd1;
>>   u32 ADSDebug; /* 0x6c */                   u32 dma_rsvd2;
>>   u32 Value1; /* 0x70 */                             u32 debugComp1;
>>   u32 Value2; /* 0x74 */                             u32 debugComp2;
>>   u32 Control; /* 0x78 */                    u32 debugControl;
>>   u32 Status; /* 0x7c */                             u32 debugStatus;
>>   u32 PTDDebug; /* 0x80 */                   u32 ptdDebug;
>> };                                   };

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