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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver
Greg,

On Thursday 16 February 2012 09:53 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> Andrew, Greg,
>>
>> On Saturday 04 February 2012 05:46 PM, Aneesh V wrote:
>>> Add a driver for the EMIF SDRAM controller used in TI SoCs
>>>
>>> EMIF is an SDRAM controller that supports, based on its revision,
>>> one or more of LPDDR2/DDR2/DDR3 protocols.This driver adds support
>>> for LPDDR2.
>>>
>>> The driver supports the following features:
>>> - Calculates the DDR AC timing parameters to be set in EMIF
>>> registers using data from the device data-sheets and based
>>> on the DDR frequency. If data from data-sheets is not available
>>> default timing values from the JEDEC spec are used. These
>>> will be safe, but not necessarily optimal
>>> - API for changing timings during DVFS or at boot-up
>>> - Temperature alert configuration and handling of temperature
>>> alerts, if any for LPDDR2 devices
>>> * temperature alert is based on periodic polling of MR4 mode
>>> register in DDR devices automatically performed by hardware
>>> * timings are de-rated and brought back to nominal when
>>> temperature raises and falls respectively
>>> - Cache of calculated register values to avoid re-calculating
>>> them
>>>
>>> The driver will need some minor updates when it is eventually
>>> integrated with DVFS. This can not be done now as DVFS support
>>> is not available yet in mainline.
>>>
>>> Discussions with Santosh Shilimkar<santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
>>> were immensely helpful in shaping up the interfaces. Vibhore Vardhan
>>> <vvardhan@gmail.com> did the initial code snippet for thermal
>>> handling.
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>> - The driver is tested on OMAP4430 SDP.
>>> - The driver in a slightly adapted form is also tested on OMAP5.
>>> - Since mainline kernel doesn't have DVFS support yet,
>>> testing was done using a test module.
>>> - Temperature alert handling was tested with simulated interrupts
>>> and faked temperature values as testing all cases in real-life
>>> scenarios is difficult.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_44xx_data.c | 110 ++
>>> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 20 +
>>> drivers/misc/Makefile | 2 +
>>> drivers/misc/emif.c | 1522 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> drivers/misc/emif_regs.h | 461 +++++++++
>>> drivers/misc/jedec_ddr_data.c | 141 +++
>>> include/linux/emif.h | 257 +++++
>>> include/linux/jedec_ddr.h | 174 ++++
>>
>> Any suggestion on where this driver can reside. It's a memory
>> controller driver which supports standard DDR functionality
>> as per JDEC specs including thermal alert. On top of
>> that it does support DVFS using the TI PRCM IP block.
>
> I don't know what any of those TLA words mean, so I really can't suggest

This is a driver for TI's memory controller(called EMIF). The
driver is needed for adjusting the controller settings on frequency,
voltage, and temperature changes. Any suggestion as to where this
should go?

> where this code should go. But just from this diffstat, it looks like
> you are creating a new user/kernel interface, without documenting it
> anywhere, which isn't ok.

I think you are referring to the header files added in include/linux/
They are not creating new user/kernel interface per se.

"include/linux/jedec_ddr.h" is the interface to a library that contains
data from the DDR specs. "include/linux/emif.h" has definitions for
platform data needed by the driver. Maybe these should go to some other
sub-directory within include/ or include/linux/ ?

I shall add documentation for the driver in the next revision.

Thanks,
Aneesh


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