Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Introduce PRU remoteproc consumer API

[Mathieu Poirier]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:56:12AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> I have started to review this set, comments will come over the next few days.  I
> will clearly inform you when I am done reviewing.

This patch is giving me several checkpatch warnings that should have been caught
before sending the patches out to the mailing list.  As such I will not review
this work and seriously considering adding your next revision at the very bottom
of my queue.

> 
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
> 
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 05:45:14PM +0530, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> > This is the v4 of the patch series [1]. The v3 had some comments
> > on the DT patch that have been addressed here. The 6th patch in this
> > series was missed in the previous versions, so, it has been added now.
> > 
> > I have posted two more patch series that depend on this series, one to
> > the soc tree and another to the networking tree. I had sent all the 3
> > series, including this one as RFC [2] to get comments and to explain the
> > dependencies.
> > 
> > The Programmable Real-Time Unit and Industrial Communication Subsystem
> > (PRU-ICSS or simply PRUSS) on various TI SoCs consists of dual 32-bit
> > RISC cores (Programmable Real-Time Units, or PRUs) for program execution.
> > 
> > There are 3 foundation components for PRUSS subsystem: the PRUSS platform
> > driver, the PRUSS INTC driver and the PRUSS remoteproc driver. All were
> > already merged and can be found under:
> > 1) drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c
> >    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml
> > 2) drivers/irqchip/irq-pruss-intc.c
> >    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/ti,pruss-intc.yaml
> > 3) drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c
> >    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/remoteproc/ti,pru-rproc.yaml
> > 
> > The programmable nature of the PRUs provide flexibility to implement custom
> > peripheral interfaces, fast real-time responses, or specialized data handling.
> > Example of a PRU consumer drivers will be:
> >   - Software UART over PRUSS
> >   - PRU-ICSS Ethernet EMAC
> > 
> > In order to make usage of common PRU resources and allow the consumer drivers to
> > configure the PRU hardware for specific usage the PRU API is introduced.
> > 
> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-remoteproc/cover/20220418104118.12878-1-p-mohan@xxxxxx/
> > [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-remoteproc/cover/20220406094358.7895-1-p-mohan@xxxxxx/
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Puranjay Mohan
> > 
> > Roger Quadros (1):
> >   remoteproc: pru: Add pru_rproc_set_ctable() function
> > 
> > Suman Anna (2):
> >   dt-bindings: remoteproc: Add PRU consumer bindings
> >   remoteproc: pru: Make sysfs entries read-only for PRU client driven
> >     boots
> > 
> > Tero Kristo (3):
> >   remoteproc: pru: Add APIs to get and put the PRU cores
> >   remoteproc: pru: Configure firmware based on client setup
> >   remoteproc: pru: add support for configuring GPMUX based on client
> >     setup
> > 
> >  .../bindings/remoteproc/ti,pru-consumer.yaml  |  69 +++++
> >  drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c                | 254 +++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/linux/pruss.h                         |  78 ++++++
> >  3 files changed, 396 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/remoteproc/ti,pru-consumer.yaml
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/pruss.h
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.17.1
> >