[PATCH V2 0/6] remoteproc: imx_rproc: support firmware in DDR

[Peng Fan]

Hi Daniel
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] remoteproc: imx_rproc: support firmware in
> DDR
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:26 AM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan at oss.nxp.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> >
> > V2:
> >  patch 4 is introduced for sparse check warning fix
> >
> > This pachset is to support i.MX8M and i.MX93 Cortex-M core firmware
> > could be in DDR, not just the default TCM.
> >
> > i.MX8M needs stack/pc value be stored in TCML entry address[0,4], the
> > initial value could be got from firmware first section ".interrupts".
> > i.MX93 is a bit different, it just needs the address of .interrupts
> > section. NXP SDK always has .interrupts section.
> >
> > So first we need find the .interrupts section from firmware, so patch
> > 1 is to reuse the code of find_table to introduce a new API
> > rproc_elf_find_shdr to find shdr, the it could reused by i.MX driver.
> >
> > Patch 2 is introduce devtype for i.MX8M/93
> >
> > Although patch 3 is correct the mapping, but this area was never used
> > by NXP SW team, we directly use the DDR region, not the alias region.
> > Since this patchset is first to support firmware in DDR, mark this
> > patch as a fix does not make much sense.
> >
> > patch 4 and 5 is support i.MX8M/93 firmware in DDR with parsing
> > .interrupts section. Detailed information in each patch commit message.
> >
> > Patches were tested on i.MX8MQ-EVK i.MX8MP-EVK i.MX93-11x11-EVK
> 
> Hi Peng,
> 
> Few observations:
> 
> - bugfixes should come first in the series.
> - in case we want to patches to be pushed back into stable releases please
> add "Fixes: " tag.

You mean patch 4: sparse warning fix?
Or patch 3 is correct the mapping? Or both? For patch 3, I would not take
it as fix, I just think there is no people using this ddr alias address. If you
prefer, I could add a fix tag for patch 3.

Thanks,
Peng.