On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:02:46 +0200
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwd...> wrote:

> On 06/27/2012 06:44 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> ...
> > I think that there are 2 cases:
> >
> >   (1) discontiguous memory with IOMMU
> >   (2) contiguous memory without IOMMU(called "carveout" in general?)
> ...
> > For (2), although memory is mostly anonymous one, we may need to know
> > how much to allocate, where we only need "size". This size is not from
> > h/w feature, but it depends on the system load/usage. So I think that
> > this size can be passed from kernel command line? For exmaple, we can
> > specify how much contiguous memory is necessary with putting
> > "coherent_pool=??M" in the kernel command line as below:
> >
> > coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
> > Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
> > allocations.
>
> I guess if that's the standard way of initializing CMA, then that's fine.
>
> It'd be nice if there was a way to specify that from the DT too; that
> way the user/distro/bootloader constructing the kernel command-line
> wouldn't have to remember to add "random" (potentially
> Tegra-/board-specific) extra arguments onto the command-line; the Tegra
> command-line in the upstream kernel is quite clean right now, especially
> compare to the enormous number of options we require downstream:-(

DT can specify the kernel command-line as "bootargs" in a dts file,
which can be modified after extracted on memory by bootloader.
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