From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tomi.valkeinen@ti.com (Tomi Valkeinen) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:15:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 0/5] OMAPFB: use dma_alloc instead of omap's vram In-Reply-To: <20121112225037.GU6801@atomide.com> References: <1352715906-16946-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <20121112225037.GU6801@atomide.com> Message-ID: <50A5E801.3000100@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 2012-11-13 00:50, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Tomi Valkeinen [121112 02:27]: >> Hi, >> >> This series changes omapfb to use standard dma_alloc funcs instead of omap >> specific vram allocator. This let's us remove the omap vram allocator, making >> omapfb platform independent. >> >> However, note that using standard dma funcs causes the following downsides: >> >> 1) dma_alloc_attrs doesn't let us allocate at certain physical address. >> However, this should not be a problem as this feature of vram allocator >> is only used when reserving the framebuffer that was initialized by the >> bootloader, and we don't currently support "passing" a framebuffer from >> the bootloader to the kernel anyway. >> >> 2) dma_alloc_attrs, as of now, always ioremaps the allocated area, and >> we don't need the ioremap when using VRFB. This patch uses >> DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING for the allocation, but the flag is currently >> not operational. >> >> 3) OMAPFB_GET_VRAM_INFO ioctl cannot return real values anymore. I >> changed the ioctl to return 64M for all the values, which, I hope, the >> applications will interpret as "there's enough vram". >> >> 4) "vram" kernel parameter to define how much ram to reserve for video use no >> longer works. The user needs to enable CMA and use "cma" parameter. > > Great, thanks for fixing these. Could you please queue these into > a separate branch against v3.7-rc5 that I can also merge into > omap-for-v3.8/cleanup-headers-prepare-multiplatform-v3? > > Feel free to add my Acked-by: Tony Lindgren to the > arch/arm/*omap*/* parts. I added your acks, and pushed: git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux.git 3.8/vram-conversion It's based on -rc4 as my other branches are based on that. Tomi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 897 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: