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29.Dd December 12, 2016
30.Dt XDMA 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm xdma
34.Nd DMA abstraction layer
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36To compile xDMA device support into the kernel, place the following line
37in your kernel configuration file:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent
39.Cd "device xdma"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42To compile xDMA FDT-based test driver, place the following line as well:
43.Bd -literal -offset indent
44.Cd "device xdma_test"
45.Ed
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47xDMA is a DMA framework designed to abstract the interaction between device
48drivers and DMA engines.
49.Pp
50xDMA defines an interface for efficient interaction between the device driver
51and DMA controller.
52The
53.Nm
54device provides a virtual DMA controller and virtual channels called xchans.
55The controller provides virtual channels management (allocation, deallocation,
56configuration) and interrupt notification esteblishment needed to receive
57events from the hardware DMA controller.
58.Nm
59supports the following transfer types:
60.Bl -hang -offset indent -width xxxxxxxx
61.It Nm Cyclic
62A non-stop periodic transfer designed for applications like audio.
63.It Nm Memcpy
64A memory-to-memory transfer.
65.El
66.Sh SEE ALSO
67.Xr bus_dma 9
68.Sh HISTORY
69Support for xDMA first appeared in
70.Fx 12.0 .
71.Sh AUTHORS
72.An -nosplit
73.Fx
74xDMA framework was first added by
75.An Ruslan Bukin Aq Mt br@FreeBSD.org .
76