[PATCH 43/74] ST SPEAr : EMI (Extrenal Memory Interface) controller driver

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Sep 10 04:56:13 EDT 2010


On 13:41 Fri 10 Sep     , Vipin Kumar wrote:
> On 9/7/2010 7:02 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 17:24 Tue 07 Sep     , viresh kumar wrote:
> >> On 9/7/2010 5:08 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> >>>>>> +/* emi nor flash device registeration */
> >>>>>>>>>>> +static struct physmap_flash_data emi_norflash_data;
> >>>>>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>>>>> +static struct resource emi_nor_resources[] = {
> >>>>>>>>>>> +     {
> >>>>>>>>>>> +             .start  = SPEAR310_EMI_MEM_0_BASE,
> >>>>>>>>>>> +             .end    = SPEAR310_EMI_MEM_0_BASE + SPEAR310_EMI_MEM_SIZE - 1,
> >>>>>>>>>>> +             .flags  = IORESOURCE_MEM,
> >>>>>>>>>>> +     },
> >>>>>>>>>>> +};
> >>>>>>> it's board specfic not mach
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> NACK
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No. This is machine specific. Same for all boards.
> >>> NACK as you can have a flash at other place and more than one flash
> >>> and the size depend on the flash
> >>
> >> Correct!! Size has to be board specific. Will modify it.
> > and the start also as you may have 2 nor flash on different bank
> > 
> 
> The start addresses in our case are fixed for a particular bank.
but not for the nor so let this decide by every board
not by the SoC

Best Regards,
J.



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