Unverified Commit f46eb2bf authored by Mark Brown's avatar Mark Brown
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spi: axi-spi-engine: add offload support

Merge series from David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>:

As a recap, here is the background and end goal of this series:

The AXI SPI Engine is a SPI controller that has the ability to record a
series of SPI transactions and then play them back using a hardware
trigger. This allows operations to be performed, repeating many times,
without any CPU intervention. This is needed for achieving high data
rates (millions of samples per second) from ADCs and DACs that are
connected via a SPI bus.

The offload hardware interface consists of a trigger input and a data
output for the RX data. These are connected to other hardware external
to the SPI controller.

To record one or more transactions, commands and TX data are written
to memories in the controller (RX buffer is not used since RX data gets
streamed to an external sink). This sequence of transactions can then be
played back when the trigger input is asserted.

This series includes core SPI support along with the first SPI
controller (AXI SPI Engine) and SPI peripheral (AD7944 ADC) that use
them. This enables capturing analog data at 2 million samples per
second.

The hardware setup looks like this:

+-------------------------------+   +------------------+
|                               |   |                  |
|  SOC/FPGA                     |   |  AD7944 ADC      |
|  +---------------------+      |   |                  |
|  | AXI SPI Engine      |      |   |                  |
|  |             SPI Bus ============ SPI Bus          |
|  |                     |      |   |                  |
|  |  +---------------+  |      |   |                  |
|  |  | Offload 0     |  |      |   +------------------+
|  |  |   RX DATA OUT > > > >   |
|  |  |    TRIGGER IN < < <  v  |
|  |  +---------------+  | ^ v  |
|  +---------------------+ ^ v  |
|  | AXI PWM             | ^ v  |
|  |                 CH0 > ^ v  |
|  +---------------------+   v  |
|  | AXI DMA             |   v  |
|  |                 CH0 < < <  |
|  +---------------------+      |
|                               |
+-------------------------------+
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