freebsd-dev/share/man/man4/xdma.4
Ruslan Bukin 85debf7f6e Add xDMA -- the DMA abstraction layer, initial verison.
xDMA is a DMA framework designed to abstract the interaction
between device drivers and DMA engines.

Project wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/xdma

Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8807
2016-12-20 18:02:07 +00:00

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.Dd December 12, 2016
.Dt XDMA 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm xdma
.Nd DMA abstraction layer
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile xDMA device support into the kernel, place the following line
in your kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device xdma"
.Ed
.Pp
To compile xDMA FDT-based test driver, place the following line as well:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
.Cd "device xdma_test"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
xDMA is a DMA framework designed to abstract the interaction between device
drivers and DMA engines.
.Pp
xDMA defines an interface for efficient interaction between the device driver
and DMA controller.
The
.Nm
device provides a virtual DMA controller and virtual channels called xchans.
The controller provides virtual channels management (allocation, deallocation,
configuration) and interrupt notification esteblishment needed to receive
events from the hardware DMA controller.
.Nm
supports the following transfer types:
.Bl -hang -offset indent -width xxxxxxxx
.It Nm Cyclic
A non-stop periodic transfer designed for applications like audio.
.It Nm Memcpy
A memory-to-memory transfer.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bus_dma 9
.Sh HISTORY
Support for xDMA first appeared in
.Fx 12.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.Fx
xDMA framework was first added by
.An Ruslan Bukin Aq Mt br@FreeBSD.org .