[PATCH v7 3/4] drivers: of: add initialization code for dma reserved memory

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Sep 15 08:50:18 EDT 2013


On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:22:25 -0500, Kumar Gala <galak at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The generic form for do-not-touch memory:
> > 	compatible = "reserved-memory";
> > - I've dropped '-region' because I think it is redundant
> > - The kernel will not make use of this memory except for when a driver picks it up
> > 
> > For contiguous memory:
> > 	compatible = "contiguous-memory", "reserved-memory"
> 
> Should the phandle references still be 'memory-region' ?

I would think so.

It is only redundent in the reserved region node because the binding
says the node is a child of the "reserved-regions" node.  :-)

g.




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