From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wr1-x443.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::443]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1h3WMt-0000WP-P8 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:38:13 +0000 Received: by mail-wr1-x443.google.com with SMTP id g12so879766wrm.5 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:38:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190311134125.10946-1-d.brandt@phytec.de> In-Reply-To: <20190311134125.10946-1-d.brandt@phytec.de> From: Andrey Smirnov Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:37:57 -0700 Message-ID: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] commands: bootaux: New command bootaux for iMX To: David Brandt Cc: Barebox List On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 6:41 AM David Brandt wrote: > > This patch adds the bootaux command which starts > auxiliary cores of iMX processors, currently only > for iMX8MQ. This is based on the u-boot-imx > command and shares the behaviour. > > The currently unnecessary parameter for the core > to start is necessary for the iMX8QM and other > processors having multiple auxiliary cores. > Not saying that there's anything wrong with this patch, but I am guessing that upstream Linux will eventually implement this functionality using remoteproc framework. Maybe now would be a good time to add a very basic version of it to Barebox? Another option to make this a little bit more flexible would be to implement this using firmwaremgr framework similar to drivers/frimware/{socfpga.c,altera_serial.c}. Anyway, just a couple of suggestions that I had. Thanks, Andrey Smirnov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox