Re: Converting vrfb.c

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Hi,

* Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [120928 08:02]:
> * Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> [120928 05:05]:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm a bit at loss how to deal with drivers/video/omap2/vrfb.c.
> > 
> > VRFB is part of the SDRAM controller on OMAP2 and OMAP3. vrfb.c uses the
> > following functions from sdrc.h:
> > 
> > omap2_sms_write_rot_control();
> > omap2_sms_write_rot_size();
> > omap2_sms_write_rot_physical_ba();
> > 
> > There are no other dependencies to the sdrc.c.
> > 
> > Those functions are quite simple:
> > 
> > void omap2_sms_write_rot_control(u32 val, unsigned ctx)
> > {
> > 	sms_write_reg(val, SMS_ROT_CONTROL(ctx));
> > }
> > 
> > void omap2_sms_write_rot_size(u32 val, unsigned ctx)
> > {
> > 	sms_write_reg(val, SMS_ROT_SIZE(ctx));
> > }
> > 
> > void omap2_sms_write_rot_physical_ba(u32 val, unsigned ctx)
> > {
> > 	sms_write_reg(val, SMS_ROT_PHYSICAL_BA(ctx));
> > }
> > 
> > vrfb.c is in turn used by omapfb and omap v4l2 driver.
> > 
> > 
> > So... Should I just remove the sdrc.h dependency and make vrfb.c ioremap
> > those SMS registers itself? Those three registers are VRFB specific, so
> > they are not used by anyone else. In that case I'd need to pass the SMS
> > base address to vrfb.c somehow.
> > 
> > Or should I have some kind of platform data passed to vrfb.c, which
> > contains func pointers to the above three functions?
> > 
> > Or should vrfb.c be moved into mach-omap2/? But then how would omapfb
> > call it? Passing vrfb functions as pointers in omapfb platform data?
> 
> Maybe just export those functions in sdrc.c for now? Eventually
> that should be just a regular device driver too..

Actually, if you're only using it to save and restore the hw
context, why don't you let mach-omap2/sdrc.c do it based on runtime
PM calls? It already has omap2_sms_save/restore_context.
 
> Or maybe Paul has some better ideas?

Regards,

Tony
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