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Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 09:55:40 -0300
From:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Ulrich Prinz <ulrich.prinz@...glemail.com>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] misc: sram: add ability to mark sram sections as reserved

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de> wrote:
> Some SoCs need parts of their sram for special purposes. So while being part
> of the periphal, it should not be part of the genpool controlling the sram.
>
> Threfore add an option mmio-sram-reserved to keep arbitary portions of the
> sram from being part of the pool.
>
> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
> Tested-by: Ulrich Prinz <ulrich.prinz@...glemail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt |    8 +++
>  drivers/misc/sram.c                             |   80 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt
> index 4d0a00e..eae080e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt
> @@ -8,9 +8,17 @@ Required properties:
>
>  - reg : SRAM iomem address range
>
> +Optional properties:
> +
> +- mmio-sram-reserved: ordered list of reserved chunks inside the sram that
> +  should not become part of the genalloc pool.
> +  Format is <base size>, <base size>, ...; with base being relative to the
> +  reg property base.

Isn't it a typo?

I think you meant:
Format is <base start>, <reserved size>,

> +
>  Example:
>
>  sram: sram@...00000 {
>         compatible = "mmio-sram";
>         reg = <0x5c000000 0x40000>; /* 256 KiB SRAM at address 0x5c000000 */
> +       mmio-sram-reserved = <0x0 0x100>; /* reserve 0x5c000000-0x5c000100 */
>  };
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