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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:10:27 -0400 From: Matt Porter <mporter@...com> To: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com> Cc: Linux DaVinci Kernel List <davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com>, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>, Philipp Zabel <pza@...gutronix.de>, Linux ARM Kernel List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] uio_pruss cleanup and platform support On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 06:24:56PM +0530, Sekhar Nori wrote: > On 10/4/2012 6:12 PM, Matt Porter wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:11:45AM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote: > >> Hi Matt, > >> > >> On 10/3/12, Matt Porter <mporter@...com> wrote: > >>> This series enables uio_pruss on DA850 and removes use of the > >>> private SRAM API by the driver. The driver previously was not > >>> enabled by any platform and the private SRAM API was accessing > >>> an invalid SRAM bank. > >> > >> have you seen my SRAM patch series at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/7/281 > >> "Add device tree support for on-chip SRAM" ? > > > > Yes. > > > >> I think the generic SRAM/genalloc driver (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/7/282) > >> could be useful to map the L3RAM on Davinci. > >> With the gen_pool lookup patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/7/284) the > >> uio_pruss driver could then use the gen_pool_find_by_phys() (or > >> of_get_named_gen_pool() for initialization from device tree) to > >> retrieve the struct gen_pool*. > >> > >> This way you could avoid handing it over via platform data and you could > >> get rid of arch/arm/mach-davinci/{sram.c,include/mach/sram.h} completely. > > > > I did miss the gen_pool_find_by_phys() call in that series. That does > > look useful. I actually mentioned your series in an earlier posting > > since I like it, but since the initialization of the driver was inherently > > tied to DT it's not usable for DaVinci that's just starting to convert > > to DT and needs !DT support as well. > > > > I do see it moving to your driver exclusively, but I wanted to make this > > series focused on only getting rid of the private SRAM API using the > > existing pdata framework that's already there. I think once > > gen_pool_find_by_phys() goes upstream we can switch to that and get the > > address from a resource in the !DT case. I guess we should see if Sekhar > > would like to see this happen in two steps or just have us depend on > > the gen_pool_find_by_phys() patch now. > > I prefer going with this series now and switching to the SRAM driver > once it is available mainline. Ok, thanks. In that case, I'll also plan to keep the davinci-pcm series using the same approach for now too. -Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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