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

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:47:41PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi Ezequiel,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks for sending these out separately from your other series. They are
> independently useful and look good to me. And thanks, Daniel, for the
> testing.
> 
> Pushed to l2-mtd.git!
> 

Great, thanks!
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com