Re: [PATCH 1/6 v2] ARM: Add basic architecture support for VIA/WonderMedia 85xx SoC's

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 07:28:52PM +0300, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> +static inline void preallocate_fb(struct vt8500fb_platform_data *p,
> +				  unsigned long align) {
> +	p->video_mem_len = (p->xres_virtual * p->yres_virtual * 4) >>
> +			(p->bpp > 16 ? 0 : (p->bpp > 8 ? 1 :
> +					(8 / p->bpp) + 1));
> +	p->video_mem_phys = (unsigned long)memblock_alloc(p->video_mem_len,
> +							  align);
> +	p->video_mem_virt = phys_to_virt(p->video_mem_phys);
> +}
...
> +void __init vt8500_map_io(void)
> +{
> +	wmt_current_regs = &wmt_regmaps[VT8500_INDEX];
> +	wmt_current_irqs = &wmt_irqs[VT8500_INDEX];
> +	set_data();
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FB_VT8500
> +	panels[current_panel_idx].bpp = 16; /* Always use RGB565 */
> +	preallocate_fb(&panels[current_panel_idx], SZ_4M);
> +	vt8500_device_lcdc.dev.platform_data = &panels[current_panel_idx];
> +#endif
> +	iotable_init(vt8500_io_desc, ARRAY_SIZE(vt8500_io_desc));
> +}
...
> +void __init wm8505_map_io(void)
> +{
> +	wmt_current_regs = &wmt_regmaps[WM8505_INDEX];
> +	wmt_current_irqs = &wmt_irqs[WM8505_INDEX];
> +	set_data();
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FB_WM8505
> +	panels[current_panel_idx].bpp = 32; /* Always use RGB888 */
> +	preallocate_fb(&panels[current_panel_idx], 32);
> +	vt8500_device_wm8505_fb.dev.platform_data = &panels[current_panel_idx];
> +#endif
> +	iotable_init(vt8500_io_desc, ARRAY_SIZE(vt8500_io_desc));
> +}

I'd much prefer that the allocation of memblock memory is done via the
'reserve' machine callback, rather than trying to group it into the IO
mapping callback.  Is there a reason it can't be?