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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/6] uio_pruss cleanup and platform support
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 08:42:53AM -0400, Matt Porter wrote:
> > 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,

That I did miss.

> 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.

There should be no dependency on DT in the sram driver. It just requests
and remaps the first given iomem resource and creates a gen_pool from that.
This should work just as well for the !DT case.
Maybe it's just my choice of patch series subject gave you that
impression? If there's a real issue for !DT, I should fix it.

> 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.

Thanks, I'm glad you are aware of the sram driver and consider it useful.

> BTW, I was going to post a patch for your driver to allow
> configurability of the allocation order, but have been busy with other
> things. We'll eventually need that when switching to it as the
> hardcoded page size order isn't going to work for all cases.

Good point.

regards
Philipp

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