Re: [RFC] Port TI DSP BRIDGE for a new dedicated branch in linux-omap

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com> [080818 11:27]:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> [080816 12:58]:
> >> Hi Vijay,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Pasam, Vijay <vpasam@ti.com> wrote:
> >> >> I'm not familiar with checkpatch, but I guess the purpose is
> >> >> not to highlight functional issues.
> >> >>
> >> >> However, there are functional issues, but it makes sense to
> >> >> cleanup the code first: there's no point in analyzing code
> >> >> that is never used.
> >> >
> >> > There are about 9 errors with the latest set of patches. These are all
> >> > false positives - not really errors. Majority of warnings also fall
> >> > under this category.
> >>
> >> I'm not talking about issues returned by checkpatch, but issues
> >> visible to the human observer.
> >
> > And the two pieces of code that need to be fixed for Linux ASAP
> > for DSP are:
> >
> > - External device MMU hardware
> > - Mailbox handling
> >
> > This code needs to be shared for dsp[bios|bridge|gateway|link].
> > And it can be also used for any other devices and coprocessors
> > needing MMU handling.
> >
> 
> This task was pointed out on todo checklist created offline by
> Doyu-San during early discussion.

Good, can you guys post the checklist here for others too? At least
that could be discussed while everybody is trying to figure out
how/where/who to maintain the dsp stuff.

Tony