[PATCH 3/3] ARM: OMAP: Remove plat-omap/common.c

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Nov 2 14:54:53 EDT 2012


> * Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> [121102 01:56]:
> > On Friday 02 November 2012 02:19 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > >On 2012-11-02 08:38, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > >>
> > >>Lets not move this in DMA code since the above is really related
> > >>to frame buffer. It reserves more DMA area for dma_alloc_coherent()
> > >>etc than default 2 MB. Infact, we should no longer need this with
> > >>CMA and memblock in place.
> > >>
> > >>Tomi,
> > >>Can we not get rid of the above memory reservation ?
> > >
> > >Yes, I think so. This one is only used for the old omapfb, i.e. omap1,
> > >and I have no means to test it out, though. But below is a patch to
> > >remove it. I also attached the patch, as it looks like thunderbird wants
> > >to reformat the pasted patch... I'll remove the
> > >CONFIG_FB_OMAP_CONSISTENT_DMA_SIZE from the omapfb driver's Kconfig file
> > >in my tree later.

Hmm actually, is it safe to remove for omap1, or should we
still keep it around for omap1?

Regards,

Tony



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