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SubjectRE: [PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 16:24:35, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
> >>
> >> >>The driver should probably just get sram
> >> >> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the
> >> >> platform specific sram allocation function.
> >>
> >> Are you suggesting that I go back to that implementation.
> >
> > No, the platform code should use the SRAM allocator and
> > pass on the allocated memory to the driver.
> >
>
> Say, if the driver is loaded as a module.
> If I allocate the sram in the platform code, how to I
> free it when the driver is unloaded.

This is what I said in my last e-mail. What is
the issue you see with this approach?

| Thanks for the clarification. In this case, the driver
| should use platform callbacks to get/put fast fifo
| space. In case this callback is not populated by the
| platform or returns an error, the driver should fall
| back to allocating from DDR.

Thanks,
Sekhar





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