[RFC 0/8] TI TILER-DMM driver

[Sin, David]

Thanks for your feedback, Linus.  I will incorporate an acronym list in the documentation.  TCM stands for TILER container manager, which pretty much represents the interface to the logic which determines the location for a given 2-D area request.  SiTA (Simple TILER algorithm) is the implementation behind that interface.  I will work on revising the acronym to avoid any conflicts.

-David     

-----Original Message-----
From: Linus Walleij [mailto:linus.ml.walleij at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:48 PM
To: Sin, David
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] TI TILER-DMM driver

2010/7/24 David Sin <davidsin at ti.com>:

> TILER is a hardware block made by Texas Instruments.  Its purpose is to
> organize video/image memory in a 2-dimensional fashion to limit memory
> bandwidth and facilitate 0 effort rotation and mirroring.  The TILER
> driver facilitates allocating, freeing, as well as mapping 2D blocks (areas)
> in the TILER container(s).  It also facilitates rotating and mirroring
> the allocated blocks or its rectangular subsections.

Pretty cool hardware!

(...)
> * Add multiple search directions to TCM-SiTA
> * Add 1D block support (including adding 1D search algo to TCM-SiTA)

Spell out these acronyms. I've been writing some code for the ARM
TCM (Tightly Coupled Memory) and often vendors pick up this terminology
and call all on-chip memory "TCM", though it has a specific technical
meaning in ARM context.

What does TCM mean in your case?
And what is SiTA?

Yours,
Linus Walleij