Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: smem: Move RPM message ram out of smem DT node

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>]

On Tue 08 Sep 15:20 PDT 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> SMEM is a software construct built on top of a DDR carveout and
> sometimes a device memory called RPM message ram. Having the RPM
> message ram in the smem DT node's reg property leads to the smem
> node being located in different places depending on if the
> message ram is being used or not. Let's add a qcom specific
> property, qcom,rpm-msg-ram, and point to the device memory from
> the SMEM node via a phandle. This allows us to always have the
> SMEM node at the root of the DT regardless of whether it's using
> the message ram or not.
> 

Based on the codeaurora limit of 99 aux-mem regions I figured this had
to be more generic. But I think this makes sense and we can easily
extend it with other specific regions (if we ever find any of those
other 98 supported aux-mems).


Can you update the dt binding document as well?

Regards,
Bjorn