[RFC] Initial attempt to make ARM use LMB

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed May 26 09:51:29 EDT 2010


* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [100526 00:45]:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:44:18PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > After applying the next patch in your lmb branch "ARM: OMAP: Convert
> > to use ->reserve method to reserve boot time memory" tux still works
> > on 5912osk, but not on n900. The difference is that osk5912 uses
> > the old omapfb code.
> 
> I guess this is because I don't have board-n900.c in my tree.  All OMAP
> boards need a ".reserve = omap_reserve," line added in their machine
> descriptor.

It's there but well hidden, board-rx51.c is the one for n900.
 
> I just noticed that board-n8x0.c contains more than one machine descriptor,
> which I've now fixed up.

OK good catch.

> > Anyways, I've picked the patches from lmb branch up to the one below
> > into omap-testing. Will add more of them once we get them working.
> 
> You should now be able to pick all but the last patch.

Yeah I'll do that once the dss2 code has been verified to work.

Regards,

Tony



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