SoC-specific support for associating regions with contiguous memory for codecs

Registered by Paul McKenney

ARM SoC-specific support in the Linux kernel for associating memory regions with physically contiguous segments of memory, as required for that SoC's codecs, image capture, etc.
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Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Paul McKenney
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Paul McKenney
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Paul McKenney
Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
Accepted for 11.05
Implementation:
Not started
Milestone target:
milestone icon backlog
Completed by
Deepak Saxena

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Specification shared with https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro/+spec/tr-kernel-memory-regions

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Work Items

Work items:
[gargankita] Merge mechanism to identify amount of memory required (at very early boot): INPROGRESS
[gargankita] Mechanism to allocate and free contiguous regions of memory: INPROGRESS
Investigate possibility of identifying amount of memory required at driver-initialization time: POSTPONED

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