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+RapidIO subsystem mport character device driver (rio_mport_cdev.c)
+==================================================================
+
+Version History:
+----------------
+ 1.0.0 - Initial driver release.
+
+==================================================================
+
+I. Overview
+
+This device driver is the result of collaboration within the RapidIO.org
+Software Task Group (STG) between Texas Instruments, Freescale,
+Prodrive Technologies, Nokia Networks, BAE and IDT. Additional input was
+received from other members of RapidIO.org. The objective was to create a
+character mode driver interface which exposes the capabilities of RapidIO
+devices directly to applications, in a manner that allows the numerous and
+varied RapidIO implementations to interoperate.
+
+This driver (MPORT_CDEV) provides access to basic RapidIO subsystem operations
+for user-space applications. Most of RapidIO operations are supported through
+'ioctl' system calls.
+
+When loaded this device driver creates filesystem nodes named rio_mportX in /dev
+directory for each registered RapidIO mport device. 'X' in the node name matches
+to unique port ID assigned to each local mport device.
+
+Using available set of ioctl commands user-space applications can perform
+following RapidIO bus and subsystem operations:
+
+- Reads and writes from/to configuration registers of mport devices
+ (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_READ_LOCAL/RIO_MPORT_MAINT_WRITE_LOCAL)
+- Reads and writes from/to configuration registers of remote RapidIO devices.
+ This operations are defined as RapidIO Maintenance reads/writes in RIO spec.
+ (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_READ_REMOTE/RIO_MPORT_MAINT_WRITE_REMOTE)
+- Set RapidIO Destination ID for mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_HDID_SET)
+- Set RapidIO Component Tag for mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_COMPTAG_SET)
+- Query logical index of mport devices (RIO_MPORT_MAINT_PORT_IDX_GET)
+- Query capabilities and RapidIO link configuration of mport devices
+ (RIO_MPORT_GET_PROPERTIES)
+- Enable/Disable reporting of RapidIO doorbell events to user-space applications
+ (RIO_ENABLE_DOORBELL_RANGE/RIO_DISABLE_DOORBELL_RANGE)
+- Enable/Disable reporting of RIO port-write events to user-space applications
+ (RIO_ENABLE_PORTWRITE_RANGE/RIO_DISABLE_PORTWRITE_RANGE)
+- Query/Control type of events reported through this driver: doorbells,
+ port-writes or both (RIO_SET_EVENT_MASK/RIO_GET_EVENT_MASK)
+- Configure/Map mport's outbound requests window(s) for specific size,
+ RapidIO destination ID, hopcount and request type
+ (RIO_MAP_OUTBOUND/RIO_UNMAP_OUTBOUND)
+- Configure/Map mport's inbound requests window(s) for specific size,
+ RapidIO base address and local memory base address
+ (RIO_MAP_INBOUND/RIO_UNMAP_INBOUND)
+- Allocate/Free contiguous DMA coherent memory buffer for DMA data transfers
+ to/from remote RapidIO devices (RIO_ALLOC_DMA/RIO_FREE_DMA)
+- Initiate DMA data transfers to/from remote RapidIO devices (RIO_TRANSFER).
+ Supports blocking, asynchronous and posted (a.k.a 'fire-and-forget') data
+ transfer modes.
+- Check/Wait for completion of asynchronous DMA data transfer
+ (RIO_WAIT_FOR_ASYNC)
+- Manage device objects supported by RapidIO subsystem (RIO_DEV_ADD/RIO_DEV_DEL).
+ This allows implementation of various RapidIO fabric enumeration algorithms
+ as user-space applications while using remaining functionality provided by
+ kernel RapidIO subsystem.
+
+II. Hardware Compatibility
+
+This device driver uses standard interfaces defined by kernel RapidIO subsystem
+and therefore it can be used with any mport device driver registered by RapidIO
+subsystem with limitations set by available mport implementation.
+
+At this moment the most common limitation is availability of RapidIO-specific
+DMA engine framework for specific mport device. Users should verify available
+functionality of their platform when planning to use this driver:
+
+- IDT Tsi721 PCIe-to-RapidIO bridge device and its mport device driver are fully
+ compatible with this driver.
+- Freescale SoCs 'fsl_rio' mport driver does not have implementation for RapidIO
+ specific DMA engine support and therefore DMA data transfers mport_cdev driver
+ are not available.
+
+III. Module parameters
+
+- 'dbg_level' - This parameter allows to control amount of debug information
+ generated by this device driver. This parameter is formed by set of
+ This parameter can be changed bit masks that correspond to the specific
+ functional block.
+ For mask definitions see 'drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c'
+ This parameter can be changed dynamically.
+ Use CONFIG_RAPIDIO_DEBUG=y to enable debug output at the top level.
+
+IV. Known problems
+
+ None.
+
+V. User-space Applications and API
+
+API library and applications that use this device driver are available from
+RapidIO.org.
+
+VI. TODO List
+
+- Add support for sending/receiving "raw" RapidIO messaging packets.
+- Add memory mapped DMA data transfers as an option when RapidIO-specific DMA
+ is not available.