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    OMAPFB: use dma_alloc_attrs to allocate memory · 0049fb26
    Tomi Valkeinen authored
    
    
    Use dma_alloc_attrs to allocate memory instead of omap specific vram
    allocator. After this we can remove the omap vram allocator.
    
    There are some downsides to this change:
    
    1) dma_alloc_attrs doesn't let us allocate at certain physical address.
    However, this should not be a problem as this feature of vram allocator
    is only used when reserving the framebuffer that was initialized by the
    bootloader, and we don't currently support "passing" a framebuffer from
    the bootloader to the kernel anyway.
    
    2) dma_alloc_attrs, as of now, always ioremaps the allocated area, and
    we don't need the ioremap when using VRFB. This patch uses
    DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING for the allocation, but the flag is currently
    not operational.
    
    3) OMAPFB_GET_VRAM_INFO ioctl cannot return real values anymore. I
    changed the ioctl to return 64M for all the values, which, I hope, the
    applications will interpret as "there's enough vram".
    
    4) "vram" kernel parameter to define how much ram to reserve for video
    use no longer works. The user needs to enable CMA and use "cma"
    parameter.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
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