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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:48:56 +0200
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To: Alexandre Bailon <abailon@...libre.com>
Cc: linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org, ohad@...ery.com,
gpain@...libre.com, stephane.leprovost@...iatek.com,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add a RPMsg driver to support AI Processing Unit
(APU)
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 01:53:46PM +0200, Alexandre Bailon wrote:
> This adds a RPMsg driver that implements communication between the CPU and an
> APU.
> This uses VirtIO buffer to exchange messages but for sharing data, this uses
> a dmabuf, mapped to be shared between CPU (userspace) and APU.
> The driver is relatively generic, and should work with any SoC implementing
> hardware accelerator for AI if they use support remoteproc and VirtIO.
>
> For the people interested by the firmware or userspace library,
> the sources are available here:
> https://github.com/BayLibre/open-amp/tree/v2020.01-mtk/apps/examples/apu
Since this has open userspace (from a very cursory look), and smells very
much like an acceleration driver, and seems to use dma-buf for memory
management: Why is this not just a drm driver?
-Daniel
>
> Alexandre Bailon (3):
> Add a RPMSG driver for the APU in the mt8183
> rpmsg: apu_rpmsg: update the way to store IOMMU mapping
> rpmsg: apu_rpmsg: Add an IOCTL to request IOMMU mapping
>
> Julien STEPHAN (1):
> rpmsg: apu_rpmsg: Add support for async apu request
>
> drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig | 9 +
> drivers/rpmsg/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/rpmsg/apu_rpmsg.c | 752 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/rpmsg/apu_rpmsg.h | 52 +++
> include/uapi/linux/apu_rpmsg.h | 47 +++
> 5 files changed, 861 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/apu_rpmsg.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/apu_rpmsg.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/apu_rpmsg.h
>
> --
> 2.26.2
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Daniel Vetter
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