[PATCH 4/7] amp/omap: add a remoteproc driver

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Dec 8 12:01:14 EST 2011


* Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com> [111207 23:26]:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com> wrote:
> > Add a remoteproc driver for OMAP4, so we can boot the dual-M3 "Ducati"
> > and DSP subsystems.
> >
> > Use the omap_device_* API to control the hardware state, and utilize
> > the OMAP mailbox to interrupt the remote processor when a new message
> > is pending (the mailbox payload is used to tell it which virtqueue was
> > the message placed in).
> >
> > Conversely, when an inbound mailbox message arrives, tell the remoteproc
> > core which virtqueue is triggered.
> >
> > Later we will also use the mailbox payload to signal omap-specific
> > events like remote crashes (which will be used to trigger remoteproc
> > recovery) and power management transitions. At that point we will also
> > extend the remoteproc core to support this.
> >
> > Based on (but now quite far from) work done by Fernando Guzman Lugo
> > <fernando.lugo at ti.com> and Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2 at ti.com>.
> >
> > Designed with Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com>.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com>
> > Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>
> > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/remoteproc.h |   56 ++++++
> >  drivers/amp/remoteproc/Kconfig               |   21 +++
> >  drivers/amp/remoteproc/Makefile              |    4 +-
> >  drivers/amp/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c     |  248 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/amp/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.h     |   69 +++++++
> >  5 files changed, 397 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/remoteproc.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/amp/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/amp/remoteproc/omap_remoteproc.h
> 
> I'm about to add this to linux-next (minus the 'amp' wording); can I
> please have your Acked-by for this (at least for the plat-omap change) ?

The platform init code looks OK to me. Please also start considering
how to do the DT bindings for it. For patches 4 & 5:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>



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