[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm_adsp: Split firmware load into smaller chunks

[Charles Keepax]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:29:06AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:28:16PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > The firmware files can be quite large and allocating the whole firmware
> > a single DMA safe buffer can be problematic if the system is under a
> > high memory load. Ease the requirements slightly by writing the firmware
> > out in page sized chunks.
> 
> While looking at some other related stuff it occurred to me that while
> this is probably what you want for your backported code for upstream you
> probably want to just convert to vmalloc() - SPI will do DMA mappings in
> page sized chunks in order to support this so you get a similar effect
> but without needing to split into multiple physical writes so it can all
> be pushed down into hardware for best performance.

Sounds sensible I will look at testing this and doing a patch for
it.

Thanks,
Charles