On 13/09/2023 10:06, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
On 11.09.2023 19:41, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
Most of the reserved firmware memory on MSM8916 can be relocated when
respecting the required alignment. To avoid having to precompute the
reserved memory regions in every board DT, describe the actual
requirements (size, alignment, alloc-ranges) using the dynamic reserved
memory allocation.
This approach has several advantages:
1. We can define "templates" for the reserved memory regions in
msm8916.dtsi and keep only device-specific details in the board DT.
This is useful for the "mpss" region size for example, which varies
from device to device. It is no longer necessary to redefine all
firmware regions to shift their addresses.
2. When some of the functionality (e.g. WCNSS, Modem, Venus) is not
enabled or needed for a device, the reserved memory can stay
disabled, freeing up the unused reservation for Linux.
3. Devices with special requirements for one of the firmware regions
are handled automatically. For example, msm8916-longcheer-l8150
has non-relocatable "wcnss" firmware that must be loaded exactly
at address 0x8b600000. When this is defined as a static region,
the other dynamic allocations automatically adjust to a different
place with suitable alignment.
All in all this approach significantly reduces the boilerplate necessary
to define the different firmware regions, and makes it easier to enable
functionality on the different devices.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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mpss_mem: mpss@86800000 {
+ /*
+ * The memory region for the mpss firmware is generally
+ * relocatable and could be allocated dynamically.
+ * However, many firmware versions tend to fail when
+ * loaded to some special addresses, so it is hard to
+ * define reliable alloc-ranges.
+ *
+ * alignment = <0x0 0x400000>;
+ * alloc-ranges = <0x0 0x86800000 0x0 0x8000000>;
+ */
Do we know of any devices that this would actually work on?
Konrad
I have the same question here.
How was this tested ?
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