Re: [PATCH 0/2] omap: dsp: make the driver actually work

[Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>]

On 10/5/2010 4:05 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Ramirez Luna,
> Omar<omar.ramirez@ti.com>  wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras wrote:
...
>>
>> Hmmm, because my other option was to move the reserved memory
>> outside the kernel, but that involves specifying bootargs again and
>> using dma_alloc_coherent with their restrictions.
>
> Huh, if there's no contiguous memory region reserved, then the
> driver is doing dma_alloc_coherent already, but that fails
> (apparently 5M is too much). Plus I've read that dma_alloc_coherent
> is "precious"; shouldn't be used for that.

Initially bridge was using the memory on the upper part of the RAM, 
specifying in bootargs mem=MAX-6MB, so reintroducing the parameter works 
fine; dma_alloc_coherent was also used when bridge was compiled as 
built-in the kernel but now it is not working either.

>
> So, first I wanted to try reserving some region with mem=X boot
> param, but that solution is ugly. If that worked, then I wanted ti
> see if flushing each time we access that shm memory block works, but
> in the process I wanted to reorganize the whole initialization code
> because right now it's very ugly and confusing.
>

Yes, I can help with that, I'm sending a patch to reintroduce the 
parameter for phys_mempool_base, however we need to remove or disable 
the memblock functions related with dspbridge. I was thinking of a 
menuconfig parameter to specify mempool base for built-in compilation.

Regards,

Omar