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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] pxa3xx: Data buffer dynamic allocation
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Hi Ezequiel,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:29:04PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:00:28PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > > On 09.10.2013 13:48, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:30:36PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > >> As part of my work to support the NAND controllers in Armada 370/XP SoC
> > > >> here's a tiny set of patches to replace the currently data buffer allocation
> > > >> based in a hardcoded buffer size, into a dynamic scheme.
> > > >>
> > > >> We first use kmalloc to request a 256 bytes (big enough for the ONFI paramater
> > > >> page) and then re-allocate (either with kmalloc or using DMA allocators) using
> > > >> the detected page size.
> > > >>
> > > >> The first patch is required to perform the initial NAND operations (READID
> > > >> and friends) using programmable I/O since the DMA buffers are not ready
> > > >> at such early stage.
> > > >>
> > > >> The second patch performs to actual dynamic allocation and it's exactly
> > > >> the same patch I sent a few weeks ago:
> > > >>
> > > >>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/275982/
> > > >>
> > > >> Daniel: Can you test these two If they look fine we can add them now,
> > > >> being an improvement to the driver pxa3xx beyond the Armada 370/XP effort.
> > > > 
> > > > Daniel: sorry to bother, any luck testing this?
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the delay, got other things to do lately ...
> > > 
> > 
> > No problem, thanks for testing.
> > 
> > > I tested these two patches successfully on my board with both use_dma=0
> > > and =1. Nice :) You can take my
> > > 
> > > 	Tested-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > 
> > Good news! Brian: all yours :)
> > 
> 
> Brian: any chance you pick these two soon? :-)

I think I overlooked these once your other gigantic patch set came. I'll
take a look at them now.

Brian