Re: RFC cpm2_devices DPRAM resource
From: Allen Curtis <hidden>
Date: 2005-06-16 18:08:58
quoted
Slightly different question than the current thread: Should the DPRAM appear as it's own platform_device? Option 1) Specify the portion of the DPRAM used by each device with that platform_device definition. (current) Option 2) Define the whole DPRAM region as its own platform_device entry. Move the device DPRAM information to the device specific platform structure. Would this help with a general dpalloc() implementation? It would reduce the number of ioremap() regions.Well, we already have an allocator for general dpram memory. I'm not really sure how this would help beyond reducing the fact that we may ioremap() regions more than once. I think the better solution there is to look at the patches that have been made to ioremap() to return the same virtual addresses if you are remapping a region of physical memory that already has a mapping.
I guess my thought regarding the dpalloc() statement is that those functions could query the platform_device structure to find the region they are managing. Make them a little more general.