Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Fix Exynos4210 DMA support

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 03:20:48PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 05:25, Guenter Roeck <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Commit 59520dc65e ("hw/arm/exynos4210: Add DMA support for the Exynos4210")
> > introduced DMA support for Exynos4210. Unfortunately, it never really
> > worked. DMA interrupt line and polarity was wrong, and the serial port
> > needs extra code to support DMA. This patch series fixes the problem.
> >
> > The series also converts pl330 and exynos4210_uart code to support tracing.
> > While not strictly necessary, this was very useful for debugging,
> > and it seemed too valuable to drop it from the final series. Similar,
> > improved support for receive FIFO handling is not strictly necessary
> > to fix DMA handling, but I initially thought that it was and added the
> > code. Like tracing support it seemed too valuable to drop it.
> >
> > The series was tested with qemu's smdkc210 and nuri emulations and with
> > exynos4210-smdkv310.dtb. Without the series, the emulation does not react
> > to serial line input, and serial line output stalls when using DMA. With
> > this series in place, serial line input is handled correctly, serial
> > output does not stall, and DMA interrupts are observed and handled.
> 
> Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.
> 
Thanks a lot for your help!

Guenter