Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: block premature rproc booting

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 06/05/12 03:57, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> What about using a separate file for the resource table ?
>
> That should be very easy to support, and may make life easier for you
> in the long term.
>
> Resource tables tend to change in time, and hard coding it in the
> kernel doesn't sound ideal (both in terms of development overhead, and
> kernel-firmware backward and forward compatibility).

Thanks. I'll look into that as that seems feasible.

> Does the below work for you (sans the OMAP terminology ;) ?
>
> root@omap4430-panda:/sys/bus/platform/drivers/omap-rproc# echo
> omap-rproc.1 > unbind
> [  471.376556] remoteproc remoteproc0: releasing ipu_c0
> root@omap4430-panda:/sys/bus/platform/drivers/omap-rproc# echo
> omap-rproc.1 > bind
> [  478.219177] remoteproc remoteproc0: ipu_c0 is available
> [  478.224639] remoteproc remoteproc0: Note: remoteproc is still under
> development and considered experimental.
> [  478.235015] remoteproc remoteproc0: THE BINARY FORMAT IS NOT YET
> FINALIZED, and backward compatibility isn't yet guaranteed.
> [  478.325347] remoteproc remoteproc0: registered virtio0 (type 7)
> [  478.331848] remoteproc remoteproc0: registered virtio1 (type 3)
>
> This way user space can unbind a specific remote processor (which will
> also trigger unbinding the entire device hierarchy below it, i.e. all
> rpmsg/virtio devices).

This is great! I finally see how bind/unbind is useful.

What if I don't want to boot the device at kernel start-up? Do I have to
make it a module then?

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