Re: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: OMAP2+: Move plat/iovmm.h to include/linux/omap-iommu.h

Tony Lindgren
2012-10-26T18:00:49Z

* Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> [121026 02:56]:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> > That's on my to-do list, as well as porting the OMAP3 ISP driver to videobuf2,
> > adding DT support, moving to the common clock framework (when that will be
> > available for the OMAP3), supporting missing V4L2 features, ... All this in my
> > spare time of course, otherwise it wouldn't be fun, would it ? ;-)
>
> Hmm, seems like a short to-do list ;)

Sounds Laurent will take care of it :)

> > I would also like to move the tidspbridge to the DMA API, but I think we'll
> > need to move step by step there, and using the OMAP IOMMU and IOVMM APIs as an
> > intermediate step would allow splitting patches in reviewable chunks. I know
> > it's a step backwards in term of OMAP IOMMU usage, but that's in my opinion a
> > temporary nuisance to make the leap easier.
>
> Since tidspbridge is in staging I guess it's not a problem, though it
> sounds to me like using the correct API in the first place is going to
> make less churn.

Not related to these patches, but also sounds like we may need to drop
some staging/tidspbridge code to be able to move forward with the
ARM common zImage plans. See the "[GIT PULL] omap plat header removal
for v3.8 merge window, part1" thread for more info.

Regards,

Tony