Re: [PATCH 1/5] soc: mediatek: Add SMI driver

[Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>]

On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 22:56 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 09 March 2015 11:26:52 Yingjoe Chen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 18:48 +0800, yong.wu@mediatek.com wrote:
> > > From: Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com>
> > > 
> > >     This patch add SMI(Smart Multimedia Interface) driver. This driver is
> > > responsible to enable/disable iommu and control the clocks of each
> > > local arbiter.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig      |   7 ++
> > >  drivers/soc/mediatek/Makefile     |   1 +
> > >  drivers/soc/mediatek/mt8173-smi.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  include/linux/mtk-smi.h           |  40 +++++++++++
> > >  4 files changed, 191 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/mediatek/mt8173-smi.c
> > >  create mode 100644 include/linux/mtk-smi.h
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Arnd, Matthias,
> > 
> > For the SMI driver, we can't find a better place, so we put it in
> > drivers/soc/mediatek now. Please let us know if you have any suggestion
> > or concern. Thanks
> 
> From what I understand from your description, I think it would better
> fit in drivers/iommu. Another option is drivers/memory, which I think
> is where the respective Tegra driver ended up.

Hi Arnd,

The description above only describe what is implemented now. Besides
that, SMI HW also does:

- Prioritize/arbitrate memory requests between different ports & larbs.
- Bandwidth limiter
- Performance monitor

I think drivers/memory make more sense. I can't find info about
drivers/memory in MAINTAINERS. Can this go through ARM SoC tree if we
put SMI driver there?

Joe.C