Hi Suman,

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Suman Anna <[email protected]> wrote:
> The remoteproc driver core currently relies on iommu_present() on
> the bus the device is on, to perform MMU management. However, this
> logic doesn't scale for multi-arch, especially for processors that
> do not have an IOMMU.

Is there a specific hw/scenario where you need this? Can you please
provide more details about it?

Ideally we should add them to the commit log as well.

> The individual platform implementations are required to set this
> flag appropriately. The default setting is to not have an MMU.

Let's explicitly set the default please so this would be clear for
users reading the code.

> Cc: Sjur Brændeland <[email protected]>

Sjur is no longer with STE, so no point in cc'ing his old email address.

> +       /*
> +        * All existing OMAP IPU and DSP processors do have an MMU, and
> +        * are expected to use MMU, so this statement suffices.
> +        * XXX: Replace this logic if and when a need arises.

The last XXX comment is always true for any kernel code, so I'd drop it.

Thanks,
Ohad.
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