[PATCH v6 4/4] remoteproc: k3-m4: Add a remoteproc driver for M4F subsystem

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Wed Sep 13 04:34:49 PDT 2023


On 13/09/2023 13:16, Hari Nagalla wrote:
> From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch at collabora.com>
> 
> The AM62x and AM64x SoCs of the TI K3 family has a Cortex M4F core in
> the MCU domain. This core is typically used for safety applications in a
> stand alone mode. However, some application (non safety related) may
> want to use the M4F core as a generic remote processor with IPC to the
> host processor. The M4F core has internal IRAM and DRAM memories and are
> exposed to the system bus for code and data loading.
> 
> A remote processor driver is added to support this subsystem, including
> being able to load and boot the M4F core. Loading includes to M4F
> internal memories and predefined external code/data memories. The
> carve outs for external contiguous memory is defined in the M4F device
> node and should match with the external memory declarations in the M4F
> image binary. The M4F subsystem has two resets. One reset is for the
> entire subsystem i.e including the internal memories and the other, a
> local reset is only for the M4F processing core. When loading the image,
> the driver first releases the subsystem reset, loads the firmware image
> and then releases the local reset to let the M4F processing core run.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch at collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Nagalla <hnagalla at ti.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
>  - Addressed minor review comments (refactoring completed in separate
>    patch)
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  - Refactoring completed first, thus smaller change
> 
> Changes since v3:
>  - Removed 'ipc_only' flag and made changes in probe() to enact right
>    operations
>  - Fixed spelling mistakes in commit message
>  - Changed some 'dev_err' messages to 'dev_info'
>  - Removed unnecessary checks rproc state
> 
> Changes since v4:
>  - None
> 
> Changes since v5:
>  - None
> 
>  drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig               |  13 +
>  drivers/remoteproc/Makefile              |   1 +
>  drivers/remoteproc/ti_k3_m4_remoteproc.c | 331 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 345 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/remoteproc/ti_k3_m4_remoteproc.c
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig b/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
> index 48845dc8fa85..85c1a3a2b987 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
> @@ -339,6 +339,19 @@ config TI_K3_DSP_REMOTEPROC
>  	  It's safe to say N here if you're not interested in utilizing
>  	  the DSP slave processors.
>  
> +config TI_K3_M4_REMOTEPROC
> +	tristate "TI K3 M4 remoteproc support"
> +	depends on ARCH_K3
> +	select MAILBOX
> +	select OMAP2PLUS_MBOX
> +	help
> +	  Say m here to support TI's M4 remote processor subsystems
> +	  on various TI K3 family of SoCs through the remote processor
> +	  framework.
> +
> +	  It's safe to say N here if you're not interested in utilizing
> +	  a remote processor.
> +
>  config TI_K3_R5_REMOTEPROC
>  	tristate "TI K3 R5 remoteproc support"
>  	depends on ARCH_K3
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/Makefile b/drivers/remoteproc/Makefile
> index 55c552e27a45..e30908ca4bfc 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/Makefile
> @@ -37,5 +37,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ST_REMOTEPROC)		+= st_remoteproc.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ST_SLIM_REMOTEPROC)	+= st_slim_rproc.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_STM32_RPROC)		+= stm32_rproc.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_TI_K3_DSP_REMOTEPROC)	+= ti_k3_dsp_remoteproc.o ti_k3_common.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_TI_K3_M4_REMOTEPROC)	+= ti_k3_m4_remoteproc.o ti_k3_common.o

Nope, please compile your code and fix all the warnings. There is a big
fat warning about including objects twice.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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