Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Initial Renesas R-Car remoteproc support

[Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:58:27PM +0100, Julien Massot wrote:
> Most of the SoCs in the R-Car gen3 SoC series such as
> H3,M3 and E3 have an 'Arm Realtime Core'.
> This Realtime core is an Arm Cortex-R7 clocked at 800MHz.
> This series adds initial support to load a firmware and start
> this remote processor through the remoteproc subsystem.
> 
> This series depends on
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-renesas-soc/patch/20211022122101.66998-1-julien.massot@iot.bzh/
> to be able to set the Cortex-R7 boot address.
> 
> One of the way to test this driver is to use the zephyr upstream support
> for h3ulcb board 'blinky' demo is my favorite testing firmware.
> 
> To generate a firmware with the zephyr project.
> 
> follow this starting guide
> https://docs.zephyrproject.org/2.7.0/getting_started/index.html
> 
> Then compile your zephyr demo
> west build -b rcar_h3ulcb_cr7 zephyr/samples/basic/blinky \
>     -DCONFIG_KERNEL_ENTRY=\"_vector_table\" \
>     --build-dir h3-blinky
> 
> Then you can use h3-blinky/zephyr/zephyr.elf as a testing
> firmware.
> 
> Patch 1/2 adds the dt-bindings
> 
> Patch 2/2 is a small driver to cover basic remoteproc
> usage: loading firmware from filesystem, starting and stopping the
> Cortex-r7 processor.
> 
> Julien Massot (2):
>   dt-bindings: remoteproc: Add Renesas R-Car
>   remoteproc: Add Renesas rcar driver
> 
>  .../remoteproc/renesas,rcar-rproc.yaml        |  65 +++++
>  drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig                    |  11 +
>  drivers/remoteproc/Makefile                   |   1 +
>  drivers/remoteproc/rcar_rproc.c               | 223 ++++++++++++++++++

I have applied this set.

Thanks,
Mathieu

>  4 files changed, 300 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/remoteproc/renesas,rcar-rproc.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/remoteproc/rcar_rproc.c
> 
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> 2.33.1
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