linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

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2012-03-06	remoteproc: remove the single rpmsg vdev limitation	Ohad Ben-Cohen	1	-3/+3
	Now that the resource table supports publishing a virtio device in a single resource entry, firmware images can start supporting more than a single vdev. This patch removes the single vdev limitation of the remoteproc framework so multi-vdev firmwares can be leveraged: VDEV resource entries are parsed when the rproc is registered, and as a result their vrings are set up and the virtio devices are registered (and they go away when the rproc goes away). Moreover, we no longer only support VIRTIO_ID_RPMSG vdevs; any virtio device type goes now. As a result, there's no more any rpmsg-specific APIs or code in remoteproc: it all becomes generic virtio handling. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> Cc: Iliyan Malchev <malchev@google.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Mark Grosen <mgrosen@ti.com> Cc: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Loic PALLARDY <loic.pallardy@stericsson.com> Cc: Ludovic BARRE <ludovic.barre@stericsson.com> Cc: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.luna@linaro.org> Cc: Guzman Lugo Fernando <fernando.lugo@ti.com> Cc: Anna Suman <s-anna@ti.com> Cc: Clark Rob <rob@ti.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org> Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieranbingham@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
2012-02-08	remoteproc: add framework for controlling remote processors	Ohad Ben-Cohen	1	-0/+44
	Modern SoCs typically employ a central symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) application processor running Linux, with several other asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) heterogeneous processors running different instances of operating system, whether Linux or any other flavor of real-time OS. Booting a remote processor in an AMP configuration typically involves: - Loading a firmware which contains the OS image - Allocating and providing it required system resources (e.g. memory) - Programming an IOMMU (when relevant) - Powering on the device This patch introduces a generic framework that allows drivers to do that. In the future, this framework will also include runtime power management and error recovery. Based on (but now quite far from) work done by Fernando Guzman Lugo <fernando.lugo@ti.com>. ELF loader was written by Mark Grosen <mgrosen@ti.com>, based on msm's Peripheral Image Loader (PIL) by Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>. Designed with Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>