[PATCH 1/4] ARM: Add __arm_ioremap_exec for mapping external memory as MT_MEMORY

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Oct 7 14:20:04 EDT 2011


On Friday 07 October 2011 11:46 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> [111007 10:05]:
>>
>> I initially tried some thing similar but the issue was GP and
>> HS devices. SRAM_PA isn't same on GP and EMU device and hence
>> did that dynamically. One way is I can make GP and HS
>> device SRAM_PA same for OMAP4 (Will loose 16 KB of
>> SRAM on OMAP4 GP). It's ok to loose that 16 KB SRAM
>> for OMAP4 with errata enabled.
> 
> Oh yeah, the beginning is different too, I forgot that.
>  
>> Below change works on both GP and HS device
>> If you are OK with it, I can update errata patch accordingly.
> 
> OK to me to loose 16KB when the errata is enabled. That can
> be fixed later on for example by passing the SRAM area from
> device tree.
>
Yep.

> I assume now you can add the mapping to io.c instead? If so,
> then it's easier to apply the patches whatever way makes more
> sense.
> 
io.c change I took as you suggested. The below change on top
of it. I just updated PM branch with this change.

Thanks for the tip. The errata code looks bit more clean
now. :)

Regards
Santosh



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