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| ==================================================================
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| RapidIO subsystem mport character device driver (rio_mport_cdev.c)
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| ==================================================================
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| 
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| 1. Overview
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| ===========
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| 
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| This device driver is the result of collaboration within the RapidIO.org
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| Software Task Group (STG) between Texas Instruments, Freescale,
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| Prodrive Technologies, Nokia Networks, BAE and IDT.  Additional input was
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| received from other members of RapidIO.org. The objective was to create a
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| character mode driver interface which exposes the capabilities of RapidIO
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| devices directly to applications, in a manner that allows the numerous and
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| varied RapidIO implementations to interoperate.
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| 
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| This driver (MPORT_CDEV) provides access to basic RapidIO subsystem operations
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| for user-space applications. Most of RapidIO operations are supported through
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| 'ioctl' system calls.
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| 
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| When loaded this device driver creates filesystem nodes named rio_mportX in /dev
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| directory for each registered RapidIO mport device. 'X' in the node name matches
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| to unique port ID assigned to each local mport device.
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| 
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| Using available set of ioctl commands user-space applications can perform
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| following RapidIO bus and subsystem operations:
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| 
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| - Reads and writes from/to configuration registers of mport devices
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|   (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_READ_LOCAL/RIO_MPORT_MAINT_WRITE_LOCAL)
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| - Reads and writes from/to configuration registers of remote RapidIO devices.
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|   This operations are defined as RapidIO Maintenance reads/writes in RIO spec.
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|   (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_READ_REMOTE/RIO_MPORT_MAINT_WRITE_REMOTE)
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| - Set RapidIO Destination ID for mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_HDID_SET)
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| - Set RapidIO Component Tag for mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_COMPTAG_SET)
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| - Query logical index of mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_PORT_IDX_GET)
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| - Query capabilities and RapidIO link configuration of mport devices
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|   (RIO_MPORT_GET_PROPERTIES)
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| - Enable/Disable reporting of RapidIO doorbell events to user-space applications
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|   (RIO_ENABLE_DOORBELL_RANGE/RIO_DISABLE_DOORBELL_RANGE)
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| - Enable/Disable reporting of RIO port-write events to user-space applications
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|   (RIO_ENABLE_PORTWRITE_RANGE/RIO_DISABLE_PORTWRITE_RANGE)
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| - Query/Control type of events reported through this driver: doorbells,
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|   port-writes or both (RIO_SET_EVENT_MASK/RIO_GET_EVENT_MASK)
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| - Configure/Map mport's outbound requests window(s) for specific size,
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|   RapidIO destination ID, hopcount and request type
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|   (RIO_MAP_OUTBOUND/RIO_UNMAP_OUTBOUND)
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| - Configure/Map mport's inbound requests window(s) for specific size,
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|   RapidIO base address and local memory base address
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|   (RIO_MAP_INBOUND/RIO_UNMAP_INBOUND)
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| - Allocate/Free contiguous DMA coherent memory buffer for DMA data transfers
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|   to/from remote RapidIO devices (RIO_ALLOC_DMA/RIO_FREE_DMA)
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| - Initiate DMA data transfers to/from remote RapidIO devices (RIO_TRANSFER).
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|   Supports blocking, asynchronous and posted (a.k.a 'fire-and-forget') data
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|   transfer modes.
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| - Check/Wait for completion of asynchronous DMA data transfer
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|   (RIO_WAIT_FOR_ASYNC)
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| - Manage device objects supported by RapidIO subsystem (RIO_DEV_ADD/RIO_DEV_DEL).
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|   This allows implementation of various RapidIO fabric enumeration algorithms
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|   as user-space applications while using remaining functionality provided by
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|   kernel RapidIO subsystem.
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| 
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| 2. Hardware Compatibility
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| =========================
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| 
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| This device driver uses standard interfaces defined by kernel RapidIO subsystem
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| and therefore it can be used with any mport device driver registered by RapidIO
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| subsystem with limitations set by available mport implementation.
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| 
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| At this moment the most common limitation is availability of RapidIO-specific
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| DMA engine framework for specific mport device. Users should verify available
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| functionality of their platform when planning to use this driver:
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| 
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| - IDT Tsi721 PCIe-to-RapidIO bridge device and its mport device driver are fully
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|   compatible with this driver.
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| - Freescale SoCs 'fsl_rio' mport driver does not have implementation for RapidIO
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|   specific DMA engine support and therefore DMA data transfers mport_cdev driver
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|   are not available.
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| 
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| 3. Module parameters
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| ====================
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| 
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| - 'dma_timeout'
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|       - DMA transfer completion timeout (in msec, default value 3000).
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|         This parameter set a maximum completion wait time for SYNC mode DMA
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|         transfer requests and for RIO_WAIT_FOR_ASYNC ioctl requests.
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| 
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| - 'dbg_level'
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|       - This parameter allows to control amount of debug information
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|         generated by this device driver. This parameter is formed by set of
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|         bit masks that correspond to the specific functional blocks.
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|         For mask definitions see 'drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c'
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|         This parameter can be changed dynamically.
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|         Use CONFIG_RAPIDIO_DEBUG=y to enable debug output at the top level.
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| 
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| 4. Known problems
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| =================
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| 
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|   None.
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| 
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| 5. User-space Applications and API
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| ==================================
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| 
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| API library and applications that use this device driver are available from
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| RapidIO.org.
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| 
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| 6. TODO List
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| ============
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| 
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| - Add support for sending/receiving "raw" RapidIO messaging packets.
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| - Add memory mapped DMA data transfers as an option when RapidIO-specific DMA
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|   is not available.
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