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* [PATCH v6 0/4] Add generic driver for on-chip SRAM
@ 2012-11-16 10:30 Philipp Zabel
  2012-11-16 10:30 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] genalloc: add a global pool list, allow to find pools by phys address Philipp Zabel
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From: Philipp Zabel @ 2012-11-16 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Grant Likely, Rob Herring,
	Paul Gortmaker, Shawn Guo, Richard Zhao, Huang Shijie,
	Dong Aisheng, Matt Porter, Fabio Estevam, Javier Martin, kernel,
	devicetree-discuss

These patches add support to configure on-chip SRAM via device-tree
node or platform data and to obtain the resulting genalloc pool from
the physical address or a phandle pointing at the device tree node.
This allows drivers to allocate SRAM with the genalloc API without
hard-coding the genalloc pool pointer.

The on-chip SRAM on i.MX53 and i.MX6q can be registered via device tree
and changed to use the simple generic SRAM driver:

                ocram: ocram@00900000 {
                        compatible = "fsl,imx-ocram", "sram";
                        reg = <0x00900000 0x3f000>;
                };

A driver that needs to allocate SRAM buffers, like the video processing
unit on i.MX53, can retrieve the genalloc pool from a phandle in the
device tree using of_get_named_gen_pool(node, "iram", 0) from patch 1:

                vpu@63ff4000 {
                        /* ... */
                        iram = <&ocram>;
                };

Changes since v5:
 - Addressed Paul Gortmaker's comments, merging the clock patch
   into the SRAM driver patch.
 - Hard coded the allocation granularity to 512 bytes and dropped
   Matt Porter's patch for now. Whether or not this should be
   configured in the device tree could use further discussion.
 - Added a coda driver patch to use the genalloc API and, again,
   the i.MX53/i.MX6 device tree patch to show the whole picture.

regards
Philipp

---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt |   17 ++++
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53.dtsi                    |    5 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi                    |    6 ++
 drivers/media/platform/Kconfig                  |    3 +-
 drivers/media/platform/coda.c                   |   47 ++++++---
 drivers/misc/Kconfig                            |    9 ++
 drivers/misc/Makefile                           |    1 +
 drivers/misc/sram.c                             |  121 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/genalloc.h                        |   14 +++
 lib/genalloc.c                                  |   67 +++++++++++++
 10 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)


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2012-11-16 10:30 [PATCH v6 0/4] Add generic driver for on-chip SRAM Philipp Zabel
2012-11-16 10:30 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] genalloc: add a global pool list, allow to find pools by phys address Philipp Zabel
2012-11-21  7:46   ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-16 10:30 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] misc: Generic on-chip SRAM allocation driver Philipp Zabel
2012-11-16 10:30 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] media: coda: use genalloc API Philipp Zabel
2012-11-16 15:08   ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-11-16 15:21     ` Philipp Zabel
2012-11-16 16:00       ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-11-16 16:51         ` Philipp Zabel
2012-11-19 15:21           ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-11-16 10:30 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] ARM: dts: add sram for imx53 and imx6q Philipp Zabel

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