[PATCH v2 4/9] OMAP2430: hwmod data: add system DMA

Paul Walmsley paul at pwsan.com
Sat Dec 18 04:42:16 EST 2010


On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> I'm confused.  I thought the whole point of hwmod was that the data for
> it was generated from a TI database of how the chip is actually setup.
> 
> However, from all the patching which seems to be going on, it looks to
> me like that's not the case - and if that's true, hwmod was mis-sold.
> It's just moved the problem rather than solving anything.
> 
> What's going on?

OMAP4 and beyond data is being generated from the TI hardware database.  
However, apparently that is not possible with the OMAP2 and OMAP3 data.


- Paul



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