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HPS-to-FPGA DMA Interrupt

Altera_Forum
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Hi there, 

 

I am working with the Cyclone V and my goal is to transfer Data with the HPS-DMA-Controller (DMA330) and receive an "interrupt" in the FPGA on completion. 

 

The data transfer is already functioning. I configured the DMA-Controller via the DMAengine-API: 

 

tx = dma_dev->device_prep_dma_memcpy(dma_channel, dma_dst_addr, dma_src_addr, SDMA_BUF_SIZE, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT ); cookie = dmaengine_submit(tx); dma_async_issue_pending(dma_channel); 

 

 

However, I do not receive the interrupt in the FPGA.  

 

I checked the HPS-to-FPGA-interrupt in Qsys. Which gave me 8 Interrupt lines corresponding to 8 DMA-channels in the DMAC.  

One thing that is not clear to me, that the DMAengine-API "offers" me 32 DMA channels while there are only 8 "physical" DMA-channels. 

How can that be? 

Currently I am using the API-channel nr. 7 and expecting the interrupt on the physical channel nr 7.  

I did a full recompile including SPL and U-boot with Buildroot.  

 

 

I would like to narrow this down. I guess either 

- there is no interrupt sent ( descriptor/ DMA-Controller not properly configured) 

or 

- it does not reach the FPGA ( I am missing a step where this HPS-to-FPGA Interrupt connections have to be enabled) 

or 

- I am listening on the wrong DMA-channel-interrupt 

 

Do you have an Idea what is going wrong here or how to proceed? 

Do you know any documentation about the HPS-to-FPGA Interrupts other than the "Cyclone V Hard Processor System 

Technical Reference Manual" ? 

 

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