From: "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: "Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@ti.com>, "Mohammed, Afzal" <afzal@ti.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
"Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>,
"V, Aneesh" <aneesh@ti.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"mgreer@animalcreek.com" <mgreer@animalcreek.com>,
"msalter@redhat.com" <msalter@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:24:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F872BED.7000703@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204121304050.29473@utopia.booyaka.com>
On 4/12/2012 9:15 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> Hi Benoît,
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>
>> The LPDDR2 spec does consider as well NVM (Non Volatile Memory), so I think we
>> should stick to driver/memory for EMIF.
>
> Hmm good point!
>
>>> So perhaps something like drivers/memory/dram/ for the SDRAM controllers,
>>> and maybe drivers/memory/ for the GPMC?
>>
>> In fact Felipe was considering something else for that kind of general purpose
>> bus driver like GMPC, C2C and LLI...
>>
>> ... But I do not remember the name :-)
>
> It would be nice if we could separate IP blocks that can drive an Ethernet
> controller or modem chip from the DRAM controllers; they are quite
> different beasts from a common API standpoint.
Yep, fully agree. In fact Felipe's suggestion was something like
drivers/ocd for off-chip devices, but maybe something like drivers/gpbus
will highlight a little bit more the bus controller aspect of such driver.
Regards,
Benoit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-12 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 21:51 [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] misc: ddr: add LPDDR2 data from JESD209-2 Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] misc: emif: add register definitions for EMIF Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] misc: emif: add basic infrastructure for EMIF driver Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] misc: emif: handle frequency and voltage change events Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] misc: emif: add interrupt and temperature handling Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] misc: emif: add one-time settings Aneesh V
2012-03-16 21:51 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] misc: emif: add debugfs entries for emif Aneesh V
2012-03-17 6:10 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver Kyungmin Park
2012-04-12 2:44 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-12 2:57 ` Aneesh V
2012-04-12 3:00 ` Greg KH
2012-04-12 3:12 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-12 6:47 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-04-12 13:10 ` Greg KH
2012-04-12 13:34 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2012-04-12 14:10 ` Greg KH
2012-04-12 14:15 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2012-04-12 14:21 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-04-12 17:00 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-12 18:50 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-04-12 19:15 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-12 19:24 ` Cousson, Benoit [this message]
2012-04-13 9:07 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-04-12 14:14 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-12 19:58 ` V, Aneesh
2012-04-23 10:56 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2012-04-23 11:04 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-23 11:09 ` Mohammed, Afzal
2012-04-23 14:27 ` Greg KH
2012-04-23 14:44 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-27 13:16 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-04-13 14:15 ` Mark Salter
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