Re: [PATCH 0/4] dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: fixes for remotely controlled bam

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Wed Jan 17 2018 - 10:55:44 EST


On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:55:34AM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
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> On 17/01/18 10:18, Vinod Koul wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 07:02:32PM +0000, srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>Hi Andy,
> >>
> >>I did hit few issues while trying out SLIMBus BAM on DB820c, this BAM instance
> >>is remotely controlled and powered up after ADSP is booted using QMI commands.
> >
> >What do you mean by "remotely controlled" in this series?
>
> DMA controller is controlled by the remote processor, which is a DSP in this
> case.
> Linux side is in remote mode in this setup, this can setup transfer
> descriptors and start/stop a transfer. But all the initialization/powerup
> part will be done in the remote processor.

Yeah that was my guess too. So in this case does linux see these
controllers/channels, i would presume no...

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~Vinod