Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] ARM: davinci: Add support for an L3RAM gen_pool

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

Hi Matt,

On 9/29/2012 1:07 AM, Matt Porter wrote:
> L3RAM (shared SRAM) is needed for use by several drivers.
> This creates a genalloc pool and a hook for the platform code
> to provide the struct gen_pool * in platform data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>

I am not sure if any of the DaVinci devices have a need to allocate from
*both* ARM RAM and shared RAM. Shared RAM is not present on all DaVinci
devices AFAIR, and on DA850, there is just 8KB ARM RAM so I am not sure
if there is much point in trying to allocate from there.

Can you instead see if Ben's earlier patch[1] to use shared RAM for SRAM
allocation on DA850 makes sense for your case? If yes, can you repost
with Ben's patch included in your series instead of this patch? I would
prefer that over creating a new pool for shared RAM.

Thanks,
Sekhar

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/840552/

Thanks,
Sekhar