[PATCH] ARM: imx6q: add support for IRAM
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at freescale.com
Tue Jan 3 08:04:47 EST 2012
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:41:36PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:43:56PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:10:15AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > Why is this even specific to fsl? Isn't it something that could be
> > > specified in a totally generic way?
> > >
> > > As I showed with my original set of sram patches, there is not much
> > > specific about this on-board RAM: what is specific is how a SoC uses
> > > it, and that's up to the rest of the SoC code.
> > >
> > As I have not seen any news/updates about the sram consolidation series
> > since May, I did not bring up it here. So what's the state of the
> > series? If it shows up on some stable branch, we would be happy to
> > base the work here on it.
>
> I have no idea; as I've already said, I lost total interest in it.
>
> What I _am_ saying though is that rather than defining some platform
> specific bindings and continuing that idiotic state of affairs, we
> have the chance to do things properly now: define a standard set of
> DT bindings to describe on-board SRAM.
>
> That's something which can be done with or without the sram
> consolidation stuff.
>
I guess it makes more sense to have a concentrated piece of code
backing that DT binding. This can be another reason we should continue
the sram consolidation effort?
--
Regards,
Shawn
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