linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/20] media: venus: core: Drop cache properties in resource struct

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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 12:32:54 +0000
From: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>
To: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
 Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.k.varbanov@...il.com>,
 Vikash Garodia <quic_vgarodia@...cinc.com>,
 Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>, Andy Gross
 <agross@...nel.org>, Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
 Dikshita Agarwal <quic_dikshita@...cinc.com>,
 Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>,
 Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>,
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
 linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/20] media: venus: core: Drop cache properties in
 resource struct

On 09/02/2024 21:09, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> Currently VMEM/OCMEM/LLCC is disabled on all platforms.
> 
> Make it unconditional to save on space.
> 
> These caches will not be enabled until the Venus driver can reference
> them as chunks of SRAM (they're modelled as separate devices) to avoid
> hardcoding magic addresses and rougely accessing the hardware,
> bypassing the normal accessors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>

Agreed, this is dead code.

Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>