RFC cpm2_devices DPRAM resource
Allen Curtis
acurtis at onz.com
Fri Jun 17 06:07:47 EST 2005
>> Should the DPRAM appear as it's own platform_device?
>
> No.
>
>> Option 1) Specify the portion of the DPRAM used by each device with
>> that platform_device definition. (current)
>
> You mean the parameter space? That's different from DPRAM.
>
>> Option 2) Define the whole DPRAM region as its own platform_device
>> entry. Move the device DPRAM information to the device specific
>> platform structure.
>
> How is this any different from using the dpalloc() as it is today?
>
> The problem is that for the few standard devices we publicly support in
> Linux it is easy to think of DPRAM as a "general" resource. However,
> for
> more challenging devices and implementation, there are sometimes
> specific
> regions of DPRAM that must be used with various additional
> restrictions.
> For many of the "real world" devices I have done, drivers would manage
> their own, well known, DPRAM areas. It isn't something that is easy
> to generalize or configure in advance.
>
Time for code.
- Allen
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