[PATCH v9 RESEND 0/4] Add generic driver for on-chip SRAM

Philipp Zabel p.zabel at pengutronix.de
Wed Mar 20 21:52:43 EST 2013


Hi, last time I posted was a bit close to the merge window, so I'm
reposting now. Greg, Arnd, could you take the first two patches?

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 struct device pointer 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 at 00900000 {
			compatible = "fsl,imx-ocram", "mmio-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 at 63ff4000 {
			/* ... */
			iram = <&ocram>;
 		};

Changes since v8:
 - The sram driver now matches against the "mmio-sram" compatible string.
 - Removed a whitespace error in the device tree binding documentation.

regards
Philipp

---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/coda.txt |   30 ++++++
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt  |   16 +++
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53.dtsi                     |    5 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi                     |    6 ++
 drivers/media/platform/Kconfig                   |    1 -
 drivers/media/platform/coda.c                    |   45 +++++---
 drivers/misc/Kconfig                             |    9 ++
 drivers/misc/Makefile                            |    1 +
 drivers/misc/sram.c                              |  121 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/genalloc.h                         |   15 +++
 include/linux/platform_data/coda.h               |   18 ++++
 lib/genalloc.c                                   |   81 +++++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)



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