* Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkei...@ti.com> [110418 09:57]: > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 09:48 +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> [110416 16:06]: > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:01:26PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > > > > > > > > > > This uses the physical address, and unlike Davinci's dma address > > > > > usage, > > > > > it always wants to have the physical address, and will always return > > > > > the corresponding physical address when passed that pointer. > > > > > > > > > > OMAP could probably do with some more work to make the omapfb and > > > > > other > > > > > allocations use the sram allocator, rather than hooking in before the > > > > > sram allocator is initialized - and then further cleanups so that we > > > > > have an initialization function which just does > > > > I think we can just remove the omapfb SRAM support for now as it should > > be optional. That will then leave out that dependency and can be added > > back once we have a common framework in place. > > > > Tomi do you see any problems with that? > > I agree. Only OMAP2 has enough SRAM to possibly have a framebuffer > there, and even on OMAP2 the SRAM size is so small that it works only > for rather small displays. I'm not aware of anyone using omapfb's SRAM > support. > > The SRAM support also makes our video ram allocator and omapfb more > complex, without much benefit, so I'm more than happy to remove it > totally. Additionally, I believe there is work going on with memory > allocators that omapfb could also use, and migrating to any new mem > allocator will no doubt be much easier if we just handle normal RAM. > > So, I can make a patch that removes the SRAM support from omapfb, and > queue it up for the next merge window.
OK. That patch should probably go into Russell's tree along with other SRAM related patches to avoid conflicts. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
