Re: Missing m8260_cpm_dpfree()

On May 16, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

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I have a question about the MPC8260 dual port RAM allocation=20

routines.
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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