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[6/6] doc: add user guide of DPAA DMA driver

Message ID 20210909111500.3901706-7-g.singh@nxp.com (mailing list archive)
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Gagandeep Singh Sept. 9, 2021, 11:15 a.m. UTC 
  This patch adds DPAA DMA user guide.

Signed-off-by: Gagandeep Singh <g.singh@nxp.com>
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 doc/guides/dmadevs/dpaa.rst | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 M: Gagandeep Singh <g.singh@nxp.com>
 M: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
 F: drivers/dma/dpaa/
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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright 2021 NXP
+
+NXP DPAA DMA Driver
+=====================
+
+The DPAA DMA is an implementation of the dmadev APIs, that provide means
+to initiate a DMA transaction from CPU. The initiated DMA is performed
+without CPU being involved in the actual DMA transaction. This is achieved
+via using the QDMA controller of DPAA SoC.
+
+The QDMA controller transfers blocks of data between one source and one
+destination. The blocks of data transferred can be represented in memory
+as contiguous or noncontiguous using scatter/gather table(s).
+
+More information can be found at `NXP Official Website
+<http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm-processors/qoriq-arm-processors:QORIQ-ARM>`_.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+The DPAA DMA implements following features in the dmadev API:
+
+- Supports 1 virtual channel.
+- Supports all 4 DMA transfers: MEM_TO_MEM, MEM_TO_DEV,
+  DEV_TO_MEM, DEV_TO_DEV.
+- Supports DMA silent mode.
+- Supports issuing DMA of data within memory without hogging CPU while
+  performing DMA operation.
+
+Supported DPAA SoCs
+--------------------
+
+- LS1046A
+- LS1043A
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+See :doc:`../platform/dpaa` for setup information
+
+- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Some part of dpaa bus code (qbman and fman - library) routines are
+   dual licensed (BSD & GPLv2), however they are used as BSD in DPDK in userspace.
+
+Initialization
+--------------
+
+On EAL initialization, DPAA DMA devices will be detected on DPAA bus and
+will be probed and populated into their device list.
+
+
+Platform Requirement
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+DPAA DMA driver for DPDK can only work on NXP SoCs as listed in the
+``Supported DPAA SoCs``.