netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Introduce PRU platform consumer API

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Message-ID: <86ee5333-6d65-d28b-0dd5-40dfe485d48b@ti.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:24:12 +0530
From:   Md Danish Anwar <a0501179@...com>
To:     MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@...com>,
        "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>, Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>,
        Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Tero Kristo <kristo@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
CC:     <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        <srk@...com>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Introduce PRU platform consumer API

On 04/04/23 17:23, MD Danish Anwar wrote:
> Hi All,
> The Programmable Real-Time Unit and Industrial Communication Subsystem (PRU-ICSS
> or simply PRUSS) on various TI SoCs consists of dual 32-bit RISC cores
> (Programmable Real-Time Units, or PRUs) for program execution.
> 
> There are 3 foundation components for TI PRUSS subsystem: the PRUSS platform
> driver, the PRUSS INTC driver and the PRUSS remoteproc driver. All of them have
> already been merged and can be found under:
> 1) drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c
>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/ti/ti,pruss.yaml
> 2) drivers/irqchip/irq-pruss-intc.c
>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/ti,pruss-intc.yaml
> 3) drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c
>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/remoteproc/ti,pru-consumer.yaml
> 
> The programmable nature of the PRUs provide flexibility to implement custom
> peripheral interfaces, fast real-time responses, or specialized data handling.
> Example of a PRU consumer drivers will be: 
>   - Software UART over PRUSS
>   - PRU-ICSS Ethernet EMAC
> 
> In order to make usage of common PRU resources and allow the consumer drivers 
> to configure the PRU hardware for specific usage the PRU API is introduced.
> 
> This is the v7 of the old patch series [9].
> 

Hi Mathieu, Can you please review this series. I have addressed comments made
by you in v5. I have also addressed Simon's comment in v6 and removed redundant
macros from pruss.h header file.

> Changes from v6 [9] to v7:
> *) Addressed Simon's comment on patch 3 of this series and dropped unnecassary
> macros from the patch.
> 
> Changes from v5 [1] to v6:
> *) Added Reviewed by tags of Roger and Tony to the patches.
> *) Added Acked by tag of Mathieu to patch 2 of this series.
> *) Added NULL check for @mux in pruss_cfg_get_gpmux() API.
> *) Added comment to the pruss_get() function documentation mentioning it is
> expected the caller will have done a pru_rproc_get() on @rproc.
> *) Fixed compilation warning "warning: ‘pruss_cfg_update’ defined but not used"
> in patch 3 by squashing patch 3 [7] and patch 5 [8] of previous revision
> together. Squashed patch 5 instead of patch 4 with patch 3 because patch 5 uses
> both read() and update() APIs where as patch 4 only uses update() API.
> Previously pruss_cfg_read()/update() APIs were intoroduced in patch 3
> and used in patch 4 and 5. Now these APIs are introduced as well as used in 
> patch 3.
> 


-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Danish.