u-boot/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig

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drivers: Introduce a simplified remoteproc framework Many System on Chip(SoC) solutions are complex with multiple processors on the same die dedicated to either general purpose of specialized functions. Many examples do exist in today's SoCs from various vendors. Typical examples are micro controllers such as an ARM M3/M0 doing a offload of specific function such as event integration or power management or controlling camera etc. Traditionally, the responsibility of loading up such a processor with a firmware and communication has been with a High Level Operating System(HLOS) such as Linux. However, there exists classes of products where Linux would need to expect services from such a processor or the delay of Linux and operating system being able to load up such a firmware is unacceptable. To address these needs, we need some minimal capability to load such a system and ensure it is started prior to an Operating System(Linux or any other) is started up. NOTE: This is NOT meant to be a solve-all solution, instead, it tries to address certain class of SoCs and products that need such a solution. A very simple model is introduced here as part of the initial support that supports microcontrollers with internal memory (no MMU, no execution from external memory, or specific image format needs). This basic framework can then (hopefully) be extensible to other complex SoC processor support as need be. Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-17 20:42:39 +00:00
#
# (C) Copyright 2015
# Texas Instruments Incorporated - http://www.ti.com/
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
#
menu "Remote Processor drivers"
# REMOTEPROC gets selected by drivers as needed
# All users should depend on DM
config REMOTEPROC
bool
depends on DM
# Please keep the configuration alphabetically sorted.
config REMOTEPROC_SANDBOX
bool "Support for Test processor for Sandbox"
select REMOTEPROC
depends on DM
depends on SANDBOX
help
Say 'y' here to add support for test processor which does dummy
operations for sandbox platform.
drivers: Introduce a simplified remoteproc framework Many System on Chip(SoC) solutions are complex with multiple processors on the same die dedicated to either general purpose of specialized functions. Many examples do exist in today's SoCs from various vendors. Typical examples are micro controllers such as an ARM M3/M0 doing a offload of specific function such as event integration or power management or controlling camera etc. Traditionally, the responsibility of loading up such a processor with a firmware and communication has been with a High Level Operating System(HLOS) such as Linux. However, there exists classes of products where Linux would need to expect services from such a processor or the delay of Linux and operating system being able to load up such a firmware is unacceptable. To address these needs, we need some minimal capability to load such a system and ensure it is started prior to an Operating System(Linux or any other) is started up. NOTE: This is NOT meant to be a solve-all solution, instead, it tries to address certain class of SoCs and products that need such a solution. A very simple model is introduced here as part of the initial support that supports microcontrollers with internal memory (no MMU, no execution from external memory, or specific image format needs). This basic framework can then (hopefully) be extensible to other complex SoC processor support as need be. Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-17 20:42:39 +00:00
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