Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: Update PIL region memory map

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Tue Jan 22 2019 - 14:24:11 EST


On Tue 22 Jan 10:58 PST 2019, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2019-01-21 21:51:03)
> > @@ -103,10 +138,30 @@
> > no-map;
> > };
> >
> > + venus_mem: memory@95800000 {
> > + reg = <0 0x95800000 0 0x500000>;
> > + no-map;
> > + };
> > +
> > + cdsp_mem: memory@95d00000 {
> > + reg = <0 0x95d00000 0 0x800000>;
> > + no-map;
> > + };
> > +
> > mba_region: memory@96500000 {
> > reg = <0 0x96500000 0 0x200000>;
> > no-map;
> > };
> > +
> > + slpi_mem: memory@96700000 {
> > + reg = <0 0x96700000 0 0x1400000>;
> > + no-map;
> > + };
> > +
> > + spss_mem: memory@97b00000 {
> > + reg = <0 0x97b00000 0 0x100000>;
> > + no-map;
> > + };
> > };
> >
>
> What's the plan if certain configurations don't use all these carveouts?
> Can we mark the reservation nodes as status = "disabled", or the reverse
> and mark them as status = "ok" in all boards, and then reclaim the
> memory for peripherals we don't care to use?
>

The code path that picks these up does look for "status", so I suggest
that we leave them all enabled in the platform dtsi and then let the
device's reclaim them as needed.

Regards,
Bjorn