[PATCH] remoteproc: report error if resource table doesn't exist
Ohad Ben-Cohen
ohad at wizery.com
Thu Nov 26 01:05:13 PST 2015
Hi Stefan,
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> Currently, if the resource table is completely missing in the
> firmware, powering up the remoteproc fails silently. Add a message
> indicating that the resource table is missing in the firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
Applied to remoteproc-next, thanks.
> This also opens up a more general question: Is it mandatory to have
> a resource table in the firmware?
The implementation we have today does require it, but that's just
because this is what we had to support so far.
> Theoretically a remoteproc could
> also work completely independent, all what would be used from the
> remoteproc framework is the loading and starting capabilities...
Sure. Feel free to add support for your hardware as needed.
Thanks,
Ohad.
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