On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Andy Green <andy.gr...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 17/05/12 21:26, Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Scott Bambrough >> <scott.bambro...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 12-05-17 03:37 AM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 07:42 +0800, Andy Green wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just curious... how many LTs have Mali stuff? If it's more than one, >>>>> we >>>>> should perhaps be talking about moving it to >>>>> linux-linaro-core-tracking. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> We have two teams with three different versions of the driver ;-) with, >>>> I suspect, custom modifications (different memory management >>>> components?). >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, there are three different memory managers (UMP from ARM, HWMEM from >>> STE, and UMM). >>> >>>> From my bystanders point of view, the interaction with closed source >>>> binary blobs seems to cause people enough nightmares without also trying >>>> to converge code-lines between teams. Especially when engineering >>>> resources are spread so thin. >>>> >>>> Fortunately (?), the two teams have the drivers under different paths >>>> with different module and Kconfig option naming, so they could coexist >>>> in the same tree. >>> >>> >>> >>> It would be best if the driver and user space was converted to use UMM so >>> we >>> could drop UMP/HWMEM, and standardize on one driver. Added Jesse here as >>> he >>> may have some info that is relevant. >> >> >> Scott is right, and we are pushing slowly in that direction, but it >> will be a while before that is possible for all Mali400 instances >> could be supported from a single stack. > > > What does this mean for the unified kernel effort then? > > We should attempt to unify kernels excluding Mali, or we should wrap or > capture the differences in Mali? > > Is there anything that the unified kernel effort can do (I mean in terms of > slotting things in llct and the like) that can converge with where > UMM-uber-alles is headed?
Naive question alert... If the Mali driver is an out-of-tree module, does it matter? cheers, Jesse > > -Andy > > -- > Andy Green | TI Landing Team Leader > Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs | Follow Linaro > http://facebook.com/pages/Linaro/155974581091106 - > http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
