Re: Using remoteproc with ST-Ericsson modem.

[Ohad Ben-Cohen]

Hi Sjur,

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good stuff. One question from top of my mind: Have you considered
> option of using rpmsg without the protocol, eg something like
> RPMSG_RAW, where I can take advantage of rpmsg transport features
> without needing the muxing feature. Then I could use CAIF muxing layer
> without the rpmsg protocol and naming services....?

I think you may already be able to do so: the naming services are only
enabled when VIRTIO_RPMSG_F_NS is present. About the rest of the rpmsg
protocol - I think you can largely ignore it. Rpmsg drivers shouldn't
really care about it, they just need to use the send/receive API and
everything would just work.

> Another option is using virtio_console, but I realise virtio_console is doing
> normal kmalloc so memory handling in virtio_console would have to change
> then. (I have a memory addressing issue, so modem cannot access all
> kernel memory).

What's the limitation you have? only a certain range of addresses is
visible to the modem?

OMAP4 has a related problem: the memory that virtio_console allocates
isn't immediately visible to the OMAP4's remote processors, because it
isn't mapped in the relevant IOMMU. To fix this, we may need
virtio_console to start allocating its memory with the DMA API (but
we'll only start discussing it when the IOMMU-based DMA API will be
merged). I guess that something along these lines would work out for
you too ?

Thanks,
Ohad.
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