Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62a7-sk: Split r5f memory region

[Markus Schneider-Pargmann]

Hi Vignesh,

On Sat Apr 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM CEST, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
>
>
> On 10/04/26 19:12, Markus Schneider-Pargmann wrote:
>> Hi Vignesh,
>> 
>> On Fri Apr 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM CEST, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
>>> Hi Markus
>>>
>>> On 18/03/26 20:43, Markus Schneider-Pargmann (TI) wrote:
>>>> Split the firmware memory region in more specific parts so it is better
>>>> described where to find which information. Specifically the LPM metadata
>>>> region is important as bootloader software like U-Boot has to know where
>>>> that data is to be able to read that data.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Markus Schneider-Pargmann (TI) <msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a7-sk.dts | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a7-sk.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a7-sk.dts
>>>> index e99bdbc2e0cbdf858f1631096f9c2a086191bab3..c381cc33064ec427751a9ac5bcdff745a9559a89 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a7-sk.dts
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a7-sk.dts
>>>> @@ -59,9 +59,33 @@ wkup_r5fss0_core0_dma_memory_region: memory@9c800000 {
>>>>  			no-map;
>>>>  		};
>>>>  
>>>> -		wkup_r5fss0_core0_memory_region: memory@9c900000 {
>>>> +		wkup_r5fss0_core0_ipc_region: memory@9c900000 {
>>>
>>> There are still references to wkup_r5fss0_core0_memory_region in
>>> k3-am62a-ti-ipc-firmware.dtsi (same comment applies to next 2 patches as
>>> well)
>>>
>>> Dont those need to be updated too?
>> 
>> I only updated the sk boards as these are the only ones that have IO+DDR
>> support that I know works and need the new memory region layout. But
>> thinking about this, updating the memory region structure shouldn't be a
>> problem for the other boards either, of course I can't tell if IO+DDR
>> would work on them, but the new memory region layout shouldn't break
>> anything.
>
> I am not talking about updating other boards, but specifically about
> k3-am62*-ti-ipc-firmware.dtsi which have a phandle reference to
> wkup_r5fss0_core0_memory_region. Therefore any dts trying to include
> this dtsi would fail to compile post this series.

I am not sure I understand why they would fail?

The current design is to have the k3-am62*-ti-ipc-firmware.dtsi files
reference the memory regions in the r5fss node, for example:

  &wkup_r5fss0_core0 {
    mboxes = <&mailbox0_cluster0>, <&mbox_r5_0>;
    memory-region = <&wkup_r5fss0_core0_dma_memory_region>,
        <&wkup_r5fss0_core0_memory_region>;
    memory-region-names = "dma", "firmware";
    status = "okay";
  };

But k3-am62*-ti-ipc-firmware.dtsi do not define these memory regions.
Instead it relies on the dts files to define them. That is done for
example in k3-am62a7-sk.dts and others.

This patch now changes the memory regions being used by r5fss0 as well
as the memory regions being defined but only in k3-am62a7-sk.dts. It
does not change the references or definitions in
k3-am62*-ti-ipc-firmware.dtsi.

So I think including the k3-am62*-ti-ipc-firmware.dtsi file should still
work as long as you have the memory regions defined in the dts file.

Best
Markus

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