"Mohammed, Afzal" <afzal@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:40:45, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:17:49PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> > I was hoping that we will have some thing like drivers/memory/* >> > but since it doesn't exist, we used drivers/misc. >> >> Why not create it? I have no objection to that, it makes it more >> obvious as to what this really is. > > There is another memory controller used in a few TI SoCs, > namely GPMC [1], do you prefer having it too there. > > As of now it is not a driver, platform code handles GPMC, a patch > series for converting it into a driver (but still residing in > platform folder) was sent a few days back [2,3]. IMO, wherever EMIF ends up, GPMC should as well. Kevin > [1] > GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller) in brief: > GPMC is an unified memory controller dedicated to interfacing external > memory devices like > Asynchronous SRAM like memories and application specific integrated circuit devices. > Asynchronous, synchronous, and page mode burst NOR flash devices NAND flash > Pseudo-SRAM devices > > GPMC has to be configured as required by timings of the connected > peripheral. It needs to be configured only initially. Once it is > configured it can be used to handle different protocols like NAND, > NOR. Various kinds of devices like ethernet, uart, usb, fpga etc > can work using GPMC interface. GPMC has a seperate additional > functionality of NAND handling > > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/5/210 > [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/5/212 > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
