Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Airlie
> > The concerns about host memory access via the GPU driver are valid but > unnecessary. The GPU MMU directly intervenes on memory access and can > only modify memory space allocated to the GPU resource - getting data > into this memory requires some extreme manual intervention if not done > by th

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 20 December 2010 19:07:30 Jerome Glisse wrote: > > I also do not think that it is at all kernel policy to disallow kernel > > drivers which do not have opensource userspace components. In fact, > > Linus Torvalds begs to differ on this matter. The fact of the matter > > is that the driver

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >>> wrote: >>> >>> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > >>> > * amd

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally th

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 20 December 2010 16:58:59 Eric Miao wrote: > One other thing is Freescale's Android BSP has a kernel tree of more > patches than this, and not all those additional patches are Android > related. So they do have multiple versions of the kernel, and we may > also need to figure out the best

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Eric Miao
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Following a discussion we had on the Freescale BSP, I started a tree > at http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/imx.git;a=summary > that has the same contents as the tree on the freescale git > server, but splits them into six branches a