[PATCH v3 2/2] remoteproc: add support to handle internal memories

[Suman Anna]

Ohad,

On 02/12/2015 11:20 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com> wrote:
>> My original motivation was that it would only need to be added on
>> firmwares requiring support for loading into internal memories,
>> otherwise, these are something left to be managed by the software
>> running on the remote processor completely, and MPU will not even touch
>> them.
> 
> Sure. But even if you guys will use this interface correctly, this
> patch essentially exposes ioremap to user space, which is something we
> generally want to avoid.
> 
>> So, let me know if this is a NAK. If so, we have two options - one to go
>> the sram node model where each of them have to be defined separately,
>> and have a specific property in the rproc nodes to be able to get the
>> gen_pool handles. The other one is simply to define these as <reg> and
>> use devm_ioremap_resource() (so use DT for defining the regions instead
>> of a resource table entry).
> 
> Any approach where these regions are defined explicitly really sounds
> better. If you could look into these two alternatives that would be
> great.

OK, will do. Meanwhile, can you pick up Patch 1, that is independent of
this patch.

regards
Suman