Ring, Chris wrote: > It may not have been clear, there's sort of a 2 phase resource management: > 1. At build/config time where the resources are statically partitioned - > some for ARM, some for DSP - and given to their respective CPU-specific > resource managers. I think originally we simply cut the DMA resources in > half and gave half to each CPU.
This is what will need changed eventually. The sooner the better. My patch at least gets the our mpeg4 codec running again. But I agree will Kevin that this is not a long term solution. Is TI looking into this? > 2. At run time where SW on each CPU (e.g. drivers/codecs) asks the > CPU-specific resource manager for resources from their CPU-specific partition. > > There's no current support for the DSP resource manager stealing resources > from Linux or vice-versa. The initial partitioning takes place once up front > (in unfortunately 2 different you-can-easily-introduce-collisions ways). > > I guess my comment was just cautioning us against stuff like this... Thanks for the info Troy _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
