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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 1/4] venus: firmware: add routine to reset ARM9
On 2018-08-24 14:27, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 08/24/2018 10:38 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:29 PM Vikash Garodia
>> <vgarodia@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>>

[snip]

>>> index c4a5778..a9d042e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c
>>> @@ -22,10 +22,43 @@
>>> #include <linux/sizes.h>
>>> #include <linux/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.h>
>>>
>>> +#include "core.h"
>>> #include "firmware.h"
>>> +#include "hfi_venus_io.h"
>>>
>>> #define VENUS_PAS_ID 9
>>> #define VENUS_FW_MEM_SIZE (6 * SZ_1M)
>>
>> This is making a strong assumption about the size of the FW memory
>> region, which in practice is not always true (I had to reduce it to
>> 5MB). How about having this as a member of venus_core, which is
>
> Why you reduced to 5MB? Is there an issue with 6MB or you don't want to
> waste reserved memory?
>
>> initialized in venus_load_fw() from the actual size of the memory
>> region? You could do this as an extra patch that comes before this
>> one.

I would go with existing design than relying on the size specified in
the
memory-region for venus. size loaded is always taken from DT while the
VENUS_FW_MEM_SIZE serves the purpose of sanity check.

> The size is 6MB by historical reasons and they are no more valid, so I
> think we could safely decrease to 5MB. I could prepare a patch for
> that.

Thanks Stan. Initial patch in this series had 5MB. We discussed earlier
to keep
it as is and take it as a separate patch to update from 6MB to 5MB.

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