Missing m8260_cpm_dpfree()

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Tue May 17 02:25:19 EST 2005


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

> In message <20050516161503.0081b1b0.ajz at cambridgebroadband.com> you 
> wrote:
>  >
> > I have a question about the MPC8260 dual port RAM allocation 
> routines.
>  >
> > In arch/ppc/8260_io/commproc.c this is a  m8260_cpm_dpalloc() 
> routine,
>  > but the m8260_cpm_dpfree() routine is missing.  Does anybody know 
> where
>  > I can find this?
>
> It was never implemented.
>
> We added this in the context of the 8xx tree, and submitted  it  here
>  at least twice. The patches were never accepted for the publich sourc
>  trees,  so  we  stopped  wasting  our  time on this. I think Pantelis
>  Antoniou (?) submitted similar code later, but I don't remember  what
>  happened to it.

The 2.6 kernel has a better set of functions around managing cpm memory 
based on changes from Pantelis.

- kumar




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