[PATCH 0/2] pxa3xx: Data buffer dynamic allocation

[Daniel Mack]

On 09.10.2013 13:48, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:30:36PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> As part of my work to support the NAND controllers in Armada 370/XP SoC
>> here's a tiny set of patches to replace the currently data buffer allocation
>> based in a hardcoded buffer size, into a dynamic scheme.
>>
>> We first use kmalloc to request a 256 bytes (big enough for the ONFI paramater
>> page) and then re-allocate (either with kmalloc or using DMA allocators) using
>> the detected page size.
>>
>> The first patch is required to perform the initial NAND operations (READID
>> and friends) using programmable I/O since the DMA buffers are not ready
>> at such early stage.
>>
>> The second patch performs to actual dynamic allocation and it's exactly
>> the same patch I sent a few weeks ago:
>>
>>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/275982/
>>
>> Daniel: Can you test these two If they look fine we can add them now,
>> being an improvement to the driver pxa3xx beyond the Armada 370/XP effort.
> 
> Daniel: sorry to bother, any luck testing this?

Sorry for the delay, got other things to do lately ...

I tested these two patches successfully on my board with both use_dma=0
and =1. Nice :) You can take my

	Tested-by: Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com>

I hope I can catch up with my pxa DMA cleanups very soon.


Daniel