[PATCH 4/5] ARM: EXYNOS: Add support for Exynos secure firmware

Tomasz Figa t.figa at samsung.com
Wed Sep 19 06:10:35 EDT 2012


Hi Olof,

On Saturday 15 of September 2012 17:44:55 Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:13:37AM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > +static void __iomem *exynos_cpu_boot_reg(int cpu)
> > +{
> > +	return S5P_VA_SYSRAM_NS + 0x1c + 4*cpu;
> > +}
> 
> This communication area in sysram should probably be seen as a part of
> the firmware interface. It should thus be defined as part of the binding
> instead, i.e.  through a reg property or similar there. That also would
> make it easy to convert to using ioremap() instead of iodesc tables,
> which always a nice thing.

The problem with SYSRAM_NS is that it might be also used in other code, not 
related to firmware only. I don't know exactly all the use cases for it.

Is it really a big problem or we could let it be for now, merge the patches 
for firmware and then convert SYSRAM_NS to dynamic mapping when its 
situation clarifies?

Best regards,
-- 
Tomasz Figa
Samsung Poland R&D Center




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