Re: [PATCH v8 03/11] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62a-mcu: Add R5F remote proc node

Daniel Schultz
2025-05-05T16:01:11Z

Hey,

On 5/5/25 17:22, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 5/5/25 10:05 AM, Mendez, Judith wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On 5/5/2025 4:55 AM, Daniel Schultz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm unable to load the latest TI firmware
>>> (98efd20ec71f8c1c8f909d34ab656731) with this patch.
>>>
>>> [    7.012889] remoteproc remoteproc1: 79000000.r5f is available
>>> [    7.032640] remoteproc remoteproc1: powering up 79000000.r5f
>>> [    7.038626] remoteproc remoteproc1: Booting fw image am62a-mcu-
>>> r5f0_0-fw, size 53140
>>> [    7.057209] remoteproc remoteproc1: bad phdr da 0x79100000 mem
>>> 0x47ea0
>
> So this looks like the firmware has sections in the SRAM region. That
> would be the
> issue here.
>
>>> [    7.064716] remoteproc remoteproc1: Failed to load program
>>> segments: -22
>>>
>>> I figured out that the mcu sram node disappeared in v5. Apparently
>>> adding it back manually doesn't solve this problem. Any idea what's
>>> wrong?
>>
>> For am62ax, there should be several items changed with this v8
>> series in order for remoteproc to work with the TI default firmware:
What firmware did you use? I was using the latest public default
firmware from ti-linux-firmware.
>>
>> 1. memory carveouts were reduced to 15MB [0] & edge-ai memory
>> carveouts are not included here
>
> This shouldn't be an issue, the default firmware doesn't
> use the extended carveouts.
Yes, this is just the echo firmware.
>
>> 2. mcu_sram1 node removed [2]
>>
>
> So when you say you added back the SRAM node, did you also add the
> sram = <&mcu_ram>; in the core node?

With that property added, I can load the firmware again! So, what's the
problem with adding this sram node and did you remove it?

- Daniel

>
> Andrew
>
>> If you want to catch up on the general direction for this series,
>> please refer to [3]. atm remoteproc can fail with the default FW,
>> but we are trying to move away from that firmware and this is the
>> first step in that direction.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/0ab5c5ec-cde3-41f1-8adf-2419b31497c1@ti.com/
>> [1]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/04e77daf-e775-44fa-82bf-8b6ebf73bcef@ti.com/
>> [2]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/32358aa1-0c02-4f4d-9782-2d8376c0d9fc@ti.com/
>> [3]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/e131298f-3713-482a-a740-ff89709270b4@ti.com/
>>
>> ~ Judith
>>
>>>
>>> On 5/3/25 00:03, Judith Mendez wrote:
>>>> From: Hari Nagalla <hnagalla@ti.com>
>>>>
>>>> AM62A SoCs have a single R5F core in the MCU voltage domain.
>>>> Add the R5FSS node with the child node for core0 in MCU voltage
>>>> domain .dtsi file.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hari Nagalla <hnagalla@ti.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Judith Mendez <jm@ti.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Andrew Davis <afd@ti.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a-mcu.dtsi | 25
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a-mcu.dtsi b/arch/arm64/
>>>> boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a-mcu.dtsi
>>>> index 9ed9d703ff24..ee961ced7208 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a-mcu.dtsi
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62a-mcu.dtsi
>>>> @@ -174,4 +174,29 @@ mcu_mcan1: can@4e18000 {
>>>>           bosch,mram-cfg = <0x0 128 64 64 64 64 32 32>;
>>>>           status = "disabled";
>>>>       };
>>>> +
>>>> +    mcu_r5fss0: r5fss@79000000 {
>>>> +        compatible = "ti,am62-r5fss";
>>>> +        #address-cells = <1>;
>>>> +        #size-cells = <1>;
>>>> +        ranges = <0x79000000 0x00 0x79000000 0x8000>,
>>>> +             <0x79020000 0x00 0x79020000 0x8000>;
>>>> +        power-domains = <&k3_pds 7 TI_SCI_PD_EXCLUSIVE>;
>>>> +        status = "disabled";
>>>> +
>>>> +        mcu_r5fss0_core0: r5f@79000000 {
>>>> +            compatible = "ti,am62-r5f";
>>>> +            reg = <0x79000000 0x00008000>,
>>>> +                  <0x79020000 0x00008000>;
>>>> +            reg-names = "atcm", "btcm";
>>>> +            resets = <&k3_reset 9 1>;
>>>> +            firmware-name = "am62a-mcu-r5f0_0-fw";
>>>> +            ti,atcm-enable = <0>;
>>>> +            ti,btcm-enable = <1>;
>>>> +            ti,loczrama = <0>;
>>>> +            ti,sci = <&dmsc>;
>>>> +            ti,sci-dev-id = <9>;
>>>> +            ti,sci-proc-ids = <0x03 0xff>;
>>>> +        };
>>>> +    };
>>>>   };
>>