From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>,
Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
Vivien Chappelier <vivien.chappelier@free.fr>,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:53:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901072053.06037.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49650128.8020200@am.sony.com>
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Geert and I were discussing actually removing the direct write to the XDR
> memory, and so the need for that ioremap, as the mapping is just used in
> ps3vram_erase(), which seems could be removed.
Ah, I see. I also forgot to mention that the ioremap_flags change should
only be done for actual memory regions, but *not* for memory mapped I/O
registers.
> I want to get it converted to a block device, and I will work towards
> that, but it will take some time. As it is, it is very useful for typical
> systems that are running full desktops like gmome or KDE and do a lot of
> swapping. Many of the distros now use it, and users want it.
Yes, fine by me.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-07 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-07 18:44 ` [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-07 19:23 ` Geoff Levand
2009-01-07 19:53 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-01-08 10:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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