Messages in this thread | | | From | Anup Patel <> | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:17:21 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support |
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:13:24PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides >> RAID5/6 offload. >> >> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM >> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to >> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements >> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels >> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox >> controller). >> >> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead >> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog >> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ >> disk position. >> >> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset >> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support" > > Okay I applied and was about to push when I noticed this :( > > So what is the status of this..?
PATCH2 is Acked but PATCH1 is under-review. Currently, its v6 of that patchset.
The only dependency on that patchset is the changes in brcm-message.h which are required by this BCM-SBA-RAID driver.
@Jassi, Can you please have a look at PATCH v6?
Regards, Anup
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