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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduced new Cadence USBSSP DRD Driver.
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Hi,

Pawel Laszczak <pawell@cadence.com> writes:
> This patch introduce new Cadence USBSS DRD driver to linux kernel.
>
> The Cadence USBSS DRD Controller is a highly configurable IP Core which
> can be instantiated as Dual-Role Device (DRD), Peripheral Only and
> Host Only (XHCI)configurations.
>
> The current driver has been validated with FPGA burned. We have support
> for PCIe bus, which is used on FPGA prototyping.
>
> The host side of USBSS-DRD controller is compliance with XHCI
> specification, so it works with standard XHCI Linux driver.
>
> The host side of USBSS DRD controller is compliant with XHCI.
> The architecture for device side is almost the same as for host side,
> and most of the XHCI specification can be used to understand how
> this controller operates.
>
> This controller and driver support Full Speed, Hight Speed, Supper Speed
> and Supper Speed Plus USB protocol.
>
> The prefix cdnsp used in driver has chosen by analogy to cdn3 driver.
> The last letter of this acronym means PLUS. The formal name of controller
> is USBSSP but it's to generic so I've decided to use CDNSP.
>
> The patch 1: adds DT binding.
> The patch 2: adds PCI to platform wrapper used on Cadnece testing
> platform. It is FPGA based on platform.
> The patches 3-5: add the main part of driver and has been intentionally
> split into 3 part. In my opinion such division should not
> affect understanding and reviewing the driver, and cause that
> main patch (4/5) is little smaller. Patch 3 introduces main
> header file for driver, 4 is the main part that implements all
> functionality of driver and 5 introduces tracepoints.

I'm more interested in how is this different from CDNS3. Aren't they SW compatible?

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balbi
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