[PATCH 10/12] arm: omap3: am35x: Add minimal EMIF4 support

Mark A. Greer mgreer at animalcreek.com
Wed Apr 11 19:22:20 EDT 2012


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:31:25PM -0600, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> cc Aneesh
> 
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> 
> > From: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer at animalcreek.com>
> > 
> > The typical SDRAM Controller Subsystem module (SDRC)
> > on TI OMAP3 devices has two submodules: the SDRAM Memory
> > Scheduler (SMS) submodule, and the SDRC submodule--the
> > 'SDRC' acronym/term is overloaded.  The am35x family of
> > devices is different in that it has an EMIF4 submodule
> > instead of an SDRC submodule.  The SMS submodules are
> > similar, though.
> 
> The best thing to do is to add an EMIF driver stub that is initialized 
> based on hwmod data, rather than hacking this into the existing SDRC.
> 
> I don't know what the current state of the EMIF driver is.  Aneesh, 
> do you know what the current status is?
> 
> If it's not going upstream for some reason, then I'd suggest adding 
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/emif.c for now.

Okay, thanks Paul.

Mark
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