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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com
Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
	<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:59:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOesGMg6f2pK4ZZ8bz=0nMgCJG-8JhLZe41prZoGsBhgGs6_jA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61c3e8a2-b230-844e-466c-ba45b42542a1@ideasonboard.com>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:49 AM Kieran Bingham
<kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> On 22/08/2019 20:24, Scott Branden wrote:
> > Add user space api for bcm-vk driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
> > ---
> >  include/uapi/linux/misc/bcm_vk.h | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 88 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/misc/bcm_vk.h
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/misc/bcm_vk.h b/include/uapi/linux/misc/bcm_vk.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..df7dfd7f0702
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/misc/bcm_vk.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) */
> > +/*
> > + * Copyright(c) 2018 Broadcom
> > + */
> > +
> > +#ifndef __UAPI_LINUX_MISC_BCM_VK_H
> > +#define __UAPI_LINUX_MISC_BCM_VK_H
> > +
> > +#include <linux/ioctl.h>
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > +
> > +struct vk_metadata {
> > +     /* struct version, always backwards compatible */
> > +     __u32 version;
> > +
> > +     /* Version 0 fields */
> > +     __u32 card_status;
> > +#define VK_CARD_STATUS_FASTBOOT_READY BIT(0)
> > +#define VK_CARD_STATUS_FWLOADER_READY BIT(1)
> > +
> > +     __u32 firmware_version;
> > +     __u32 fw_status;
> > +     /* End version 0 fields */
> > +
> > +     __u64 reserved[14];
> > +     /* Total of 16*u64 for all versions */
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct vk_image {
> > +     __u32 type;     /* Type of image */
> > +#define VK_IMAGE_TYPE_BOOT1 1 /* 1st stage (load to SRAM) */
> > +#define VK_IMAGE_TYPE_BOOT2 2 /* 2nd stage (load to DDR) */
> > +     char filename[64]; /* Filename of image */
> > +};
> > +
> > +/* default firmware images names */
> > +#define VK_BOOT1_DEF_FILENAME            "vk-boot1.bin"
> > +#define VK_BOOT2_DEF_FILENAME            "vk-boot2.bin"
> > +
> > +struct vk_access {
> > +     __u8 barno;     /* BAR number to use */
> > +     __u8 type;      /* Type of access */
> > +#define VK_ACCESS_READ 0
> > +#define VK_ACCESS_WRITE 1
> > +     __u32 len;      /* length of data */
> > +     __u64 offset;   /* offset in BAR */
> > +     __u32 *data;    /* where to read/write data to */
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct vk_reset {
> > +     __u32 arg1;
> > +     __u32 arg2;
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define VK_MAGIC              0x5E
> > +
> > +/* Get metadata from Valkyrie (firmware version, card status, etc) */
> > +#define VK_IOCTL_GET_METADATA _IOR(VK_MAGIC, 0x1, struct vk_metadata)
> > +
> > +/* Load image to Valkyrie */
> > +#define VK_IOCTL_LOAD_IMAGE   _IOW(VK_MAGIC, 0x2, struct vk_image)
> > +
> > +/* Read data from Valkyrie */
> > +#define VK_IOCTL_ACCESS_BAR   _IOWR(VK_MAGIC, 0x3, struct vk_access)
> > +
> > +/* Send Reset to Valkyrie */
> > +#define VK_IOCTL_RESET        _IOW(VK_MAGIC, 0x4, struct vk_reset)
>
> It sounds a bit like the valkyrie is a generic asynchronous coprocessor,
> does it merit using the remoteproc interfaces to control it ?
>
> Or is it really just a single purpose cell doing video operations ?

Remoteproc brings some useful shared functionality, in particular
around loading and parsing firmware formats for platforms where the
remote processor uses system carved out memory to run, etc.

For something like a PCIe device, it *can* be used but it really
doesn't bring any immediate benefit, especially if there aren't
multiple in-kernel drivers that need to talk to the hardware in an
abstracted way.


-Olof



-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-08 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 19:24 [PATCH 0/7] firmware: add partial read support in request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support Scott Branden
2019-08-23 12:29   ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-23 19:55     ` Scott Branden
2019-08-23 21:29       ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:47   ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-22 20:07     ` Scott Branden
2019-08-22 21:12       ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-22 23:30         ` Scott Branden
2019-08-23 15:47           ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-23 20:16             ` Scott Branden
2019-08-23 10:05   ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-23 19:44     ` Scott Branden
2019-08-26 15:20       ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-26 15:41         ` Scott Branden
2019-08-26 15:57           ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-26 17:12           ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-26 17:24             ` Scott Branden
2019-08-27 10:40               ` Takashi Iwai
2019-10-11 13:31                 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-21  0:11                   ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21  8:44                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-21 18:23                       ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21 23:37                       ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22  8:06                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] test_firmware: add partial read support for request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] selftests: firmware: Test partial file reads of request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI Scott Branden
2019-08-27 13:54   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-27 14:49   ` Kieran Bingham
2019-10-08 15:59     ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom Valkyrie driver Scott Branden
2019-08-27 14:14   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-27 15:25     ` Nicolas Dufresne
2019-08-22 19:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] MAINTAINERS: bcm-vk: Add maintainer for Broadcom Valkyrie Driver Scott Branden

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