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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:25:19 -0500
To: "Wolfgang Denk" <wd@denx.de>
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Subject: Re: Missing m8260_cpm_dpfree() 
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On May 16, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <20050516161503.0081b1b0.ajz@cambridgebroadband.com> you=20
> wrote:
>  >
> > I have a question about the MPC8260 dual port RAM allocation=20
> routines.
>  >
> > In arch/ppc/8260_io/commproc.c this is a=A0 m8260_cpm_dpalloc()=20
> routine,
>  > but the m8260_cpm_dpfree() routine is missing.=A0 Does anybody know=20=

> where
>  > I can find this?
>
> It was never implemented.
>
> We added this in the context of the 8xx tree, and submitted=A0 it=A0 =
here
>  at least twice. The patches were never accepted for the publich sourc
>  trees,=A0 so=A0 we=A0 stopped=A0 wasting=A0 our=A0 time on this. I =
think Pantelis
>  Antoniou (?) submitted similar code later, but I don't remember=A0 =
what
>  happened to it.

The 2.6 kernel has a better set of functions around managing cpm memory=20=

based on changes from Pantelis.

- kumar