The DMA engine is a generic kernel framework for developing a DMA controller driver. The main goal of DMA is offloading the CPU when it comes to copy memory. One delegates a transaction (I/O data transfers) to the DMA engine by the use of channels. A DMA engine, through its driver/API, exposes a set of channels that can be used by other devices (slaves). The DMA Engine layout is shown in the following diagram:
DMA Engine layout
Here, we will simply walk through the (slave) API, which is applicable for slave DMA usage only. The mandatory header here is as follows:
#include <linux/dmaengine.h>
Using the slave DMA is straightforward, ...
