remoteproc: Load coprocessor code to the specific main memory location

Ohad Ben-Cohen ohad at wizery.com
Fri Jan 27 06:38:39 EST 2012


On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu> wrote:
> I have one small problem which is that physical address is 0x10000000
> which means that firmware entry point is the same.

This is what we do with the davinci DSPs, too.

> In rproc_load_segments is da composed from phdr->p_paddr which is
> 0x10000000.

Ok, I don't see any issue here.

> And code is designed that this load addr is offset.

Not sure exactly what do you mean by that ?

> Here is the code:
>        /* go through the available ELF segments */
>        for (i = 0; i < ehdr->e_phnum; i++, phdr++) {
>                u32 da = phdr->p_paddr; // OFFSET 0x10000000
>                u32 memsz = phdr->p_memsz;
>
> But for my case is physical address correct and it is not offset 0x10000000.

Again, I'm not sure what exactly is the issue. p_paddr is the physical
address where the image is expected, that sounds ok to me.

Thanks,
Ohad.



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