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

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Sep 16 09:43:08 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 09:12 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>
>> Fixing those issues requires further discussion. Frankly, right now I
>> really have no idea which way should I go. The /reserved-ranges node seems
>> to be easy to match particular reserved memory region with a given device.
>> I'm also not really convinced if it makes sense to add a code for finding
>> and matching a reserved memory region to every device driver, which might
>> need it. I would really like to get some more feedback on the Ben's
>> comment.
>>
>> In any case, the code will also change significantly, so I assume that the
>> best, what can be done now is to revert the current version and start from
>> the scratch with a new, complete proposal.
>
> Yes, let's do that. I will try to help. It shouldn't be that a big deal.

I think we can get the concerns sorted quickly. I'm at meetings all
day today in SJC, but I'll take a look at it this evening. I'll be in
Edinburgh. We're holding an ARM summit at the same time so a bunch of
affected ARM folks will be there.

g.



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