[PATCH] arm: introduce arm_add_mem_device to register dram device

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 10:05 Mon 01 Aug     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:04:52AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > this will automaticaly register the device to armlinux_add_dram
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> > > ---
> > > diff --git a/include/driver.h b/include/driver.h
> > > index b011f98..0faafe3 100644
> > > --- a/include/driver.h
> > > +++ b/include/driver.h
> > > @@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ static inline struct device_d *add_mem_device(const char *name, resource_size_t
> > >  				  IORESOURCE_MEM | flags, NULL);
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
> > > +struct device_d *arm_add_mem_device(const char* name, resource_size_t start,
> > > +				    resource_size_t size);
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > 
> > No ifdefs around function declarations please. Also, this should
> > go somewhere under arch/arm/include.
> armlinux?
> > 
> > BTW this conflicts with my mmu series I recently sent. Having this
> > arm_add_mem_device function is a good thing, but now one of us has
> > to do his series again :(
> 
> > For the mmu to just work on all boards I need a place where I know
> > that all memory has been registered. For this I wanted to introduce
> > a memory_initcall (we could also reuse console_initcall, but I thought
> > having a dedicated initcall is cleaner). Then I could initialize the
> > mmu in a later initcall.
> I known but I wish we drop the mmu_init in the board at all
> and manage it in a generic part

That's my goal aswell, but the mmu init needs to be done when the memory
is registered but still no driver uses dma_alloc_coherent. Currently
this place does not exist since every board does the memory registration
at some random place.
The mmu code can't remap sdram without knowing where it is.

Sascha

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