Re: [RFC][DRAFT] TODO list for TI DSP BRIDGE

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com> [080818 20:21]:
> Hi Vijay,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Pasam, Vijay <vpasam@ti.com> wrote:
> > Hi Hiroshi,
> >
> >> Yes, "dspgateway" won't support OMAP3 but if I remember
> >> correctly that TWL is already in OMAP2? and also does Camera
> >> use the same mechanism of this MMU? This may be benefit or a
> >> must, I guess..
> >
> > I agree. If we are certain that camera driver or some other driver uses
> > MMU the same way bridge does and the MMU architecture is the same, it
> > makes sense to make this generic code. My point is that if DSPGateway
> > doesn't use TWL, it will not benefit from using the Bridge MMU code
> > which has TWL enabled.
> >
> 
> I think recently some one from TI posted OMAP3 camera driver at
> linux-v4l2 mailing list and which I think was using camera MMU, but
> not the common MMU framework it seems from the description. They
> should first start converting to the common MMU infrastructure then.
> 
> http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/23215-omap3-camera-driver.html

We must make the MMU framework generic for the coprocessors, otherwise
maintenance will be a nightmare and the code will never get merged
upstream.

Tony