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[FROM linux-imx] firmware: imx: Add DSP IPC protocol interface - #1125
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Some of i.MX8 processors (e.g i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP) contain
the Tensilica HiFi4 DSP for advanced pre- and post-audio
processing.
The communication between Host CPU and DSP firmware is
taking place using a shared memory area for message passing
and a dedicated Messaging Unit for notifications.
DSP IPC protocol offers a doorbell interface using
imx-mailbox API.
We use 4 MU channels (2 x TXDB, 2 x RXDB) to implement a
request-reply protocol.
Connection 0 (txdb0, rxdb0):
- Host writes messasge to shared memory [SHMEM]
- Host sends a request [MU]
- DSP handles request [SHMEM]
- DSP sends reply [MU]
Connection 1 (txdb1, rxdb1):
- DSP writes a message to shared memory [SHMEM]
- DSP sends a request [MU]
- Host handles request [SHMEM]
- Host sends reply [MU]
The protocol interface will be used by a Host client to
communicate with the DSP. First client will be the i.MX8
part from Sound Open Firmware infrastructure.
The protocol offers the following interface:
On Tx:
- imx_dsp_ring_doorbell, will be called to notify the DSP
that it needs to handle a request.
On Rx:
- clients need to provide two callbacks:
.handle_reply
.handle_request
- the callbacks will be used by the protocol on
notification arrival from DSP.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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This patch is already accepted in i.MX ARM maintainer tree and it is queued for 5.4. Merge this into SOF tree also in order for people working on SOF IMX to have less patches to apply.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=ffbf23d50353915dc2622a3b7b4ddc678165f92d