These patches add support to configure on-chip SRAM via device-tree node and to obtain the resulting genalloc pool from a phandle pointing at the node. This allows drivers to allocate SRAM with the genalloc API without hard-coding the genalloc pool address.
The on-chip SRAM on i.MX53 and i.MX6q is registered via device tree and changed to use the simple generic SRAM driver: ocram: ocram@00900000 { compatible = "fsl,imx-ocram", "sram"; reg = <0x00900000 0x3f000>; }; A driver that needs to allocate SRAM buffers, like the video processing unit on i.MX53, can retrieve the genalloc pool from a phandle in the device tree using of_get_named_gen_pool(node, "iram", 0) from patch 1: vpu@63ff4000 { /* ... */ iram = <&ocram>; }; Changes since v3: - Added devicetree binding documentation - Register platform driver early with postcore_initcall - Added optional SRAM clock support. regards Philipp --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt | 17 ++++ arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53.dtsi | 5 + arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi | 5 + arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c | 1 + arch/arm/plat-mxc/Kconfig | 4 - arch/arm/plat-mxc/Makefile | 1 - arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/iram.h | 41 -------- arch/arm/plat-mxc/iram_alloc.c | 73 -------------- drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 ++ drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/sram.c | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/genalloc.h | 14 +++ lib/genalloc.c | 67 +++++++++++++ 13 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/