On Wednesday 29 July 2009 23:37:16 Karicheri, Muralidharan wrote:
> Laurent,
>
> Ok, now I understand how /dev/mem works. This should works as well. But one
> of our apps engineer mentioned some problems in using /dev/mem related to
> mmap. Did you encounter any issues while using this method?

I haven't tried to myself, it's just an idea that I'm throwing in the 
discussion.

> The driver is basically written to allocate multiple pools and buffers per
> pool to satisfies various memory allocation requirements inside our TI SDK.

Are you referring to the cmemk driver ? It seems to really be a quick hack to 
short-circuit all the Linux kernel memory management infrastructure and let 
userspace allocate physical memory from a private pool of reserved SDRAM. I'd 
be quite surprised if something like that ever ends up in mainline.

Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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