Re: [RFC 1/4] remoteproc: Bugfix assign device address to carveout (noiommu)

From: Ohad Ben-Cohen
Date: Thu Aug 09 2012 - 15:55:09 EST


Hi Sjur,

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I realize that we have the same issue with the virtio rings.
> Are there any way we can assign the device address of the virtio rings
> to the resource table in shared memory?

It's a gap we have today, but it should definitely be fixed.

> Or do we have to calculate the
> virtio ring addresses based on number rings and the number of elements
> in the ring?

No, that's not the long term intention. It can be used as an interim
solution, but I expect we do fix this and start supporting dynamic
assignments of the vrings locations at some point.

Thanks,
Ohad.
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