Hi Vijay, On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Trilok Soni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vijay, > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Pasam, Vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Trilok: > > > > > > > > > > > > I was just going this dspbridge code, and I was surprised to > > > find layers for un-necessary things, where we could have > > > simply called the linux kernel provided function. Here goes the list: > > > > > > 1. There is un-necessary "linux" directory inside mpu_driver > > > source codes. e.g src/osal/linux etc. I hope we are writing > > > this code for Linux kernel only. > > > 2. src/osal/linux > > > - As the name suggest for directory it is OS Abstraction > > > layer for Linux. I don't see any need for this at all. In > > > Linux kernel, we follow approach of directly calling the > > > provided functions and not to further wrap it until necessary. > > > > > > src/osal/list.c > > > > > > - This whole file tries implement doubly linked list code, I > > > am sure you can get away this with list.h itself. I don't see > > > any need of further wrapping it. > > > > > > src/osal/kfile.c > > > > > > - Don't use KENREL_VERSION comparision check unless very much > > > necessary, always try to keep driver in sync in latest kernel > > > version instead. > > > - Again there are wrappers for file reading functions > > > provided by kernel. > > > - If this functions are only used for doff loader, then > > > moving it to outside kernel space, then we can get away with > > > this functions. > > > > > > src/osal/mem.c > > > > > > - I see here that you guys are maintaining the pool of memory > > > allocated with dma_alloc_coherent, you guys should have used > > > existing mempool apis instead, look at dspgw code for example. > > > > > > src/osal/isr.c > > > > > > - Not required, please call request_irq/free_irq directly > > > please. I also see lots of #ifdef LINUX and #ifndef LINUX, > > > does TI also target to build this code for WinCE and Symbian > > > like OS. If yes, I don't see how we are going to maintain > > > this along with community. > > > > > > src/osal/dpc.c - please call tasklet functions directly instead. > > > > > > src/pmgr/linux/common/dmm.c - > > > > One of the goals of bridge is easier portability to other RTOS. You are > > right about the additional layer to call into Linux OS. This was > > intended to port this to other OS'es easily. > > > > TI has to decide, what path they have to follow now onwards for > bridge, I see no need of OSAL layer, when we are targeting this as > Linux kernel driver. > > It would be tough to get contributions as this code at first sight > looks harder to understand. Let's have some ideas on how we can clean > this code gradually without breaking API compatibility and IPC layer. > Common MMU and Mailbox framework written in Nokia dspgw should also be > utilized in this. >
Forgot to mention that "documents" folder contains documents in MS$ .doc format. Please publish them in .pdf instead. Later the steps can be converted to dspbridge-wiki pages. -- ---Trilok Soni http://triloksoni.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
