Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver

[Paul Walmsley]

Hi Benoît,

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Cousson, Benoit wrote:

> The LPDDR2 spec does consider as well NVM (Non Volatile Memory), so I think we
> should stick to driver/memory for EMIF.

Hmm good point!

> > So perhaps something like drivers/memory/dram/ for the SDRAM controllers,
> > and maybe drivers/memory/ for the GPMC?
> 
> In fact Felipe was considering something else for that kind of general purpose
> bus driver like GMPC, C2C and LLI...
> 
> ... But I do not remember the name :-)

It would be nice if we could separate IP blocks that can drive an Ethernet 
controller or modem chip from the DRAM controllers; they are quite 
different beasts from a common API standpoint.


- Paul