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Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] remoteproc: Add new resource type for resource table spare bytes

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On 09/15/2016 07:54 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Wed 31 Aug 13:50 PDT 2016, Loic Pallardy wrote:
>
>> To allow resource appending to an existing resource table,
>> remoteproc framework should get information about resource
>> table spare area. With current resource table construction,
>> remoteproc is not able to identify by itself any free location.
>> This patch introduces a new resource type named RSC_SPARE which
>> allows firmware to define room for resource table extension.
>> Defined spare area will be used by remtoreproc to extend resource
>> table.
>>
>
> We don't need a dummy type for keeping track of the available room in
> the resource table in the loaded firmware. All we need to do is to look
> at the sh_size of the .resource_table section, which actually is what's
> returned in tablesz.
>
This is the size of the .resource_table section. Doesn't means that only 
resource table is stored in. Today this is the assumption and we force 
firmware to respect this.

> So the spare size is the difference between tablesz and the end of the
> last resource and if you need you can pad this when composing the
> firmware.
>
Proposal was to clearly identify the area for extension (whatever 
.resource_table section is done). But if you agree on the fact 
.resource_tabel section constains only resource table and eventualy room 
for extension, I can indeed simply room detection.

Regards,
Loic

> Regards,
> Bjorn
>

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Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] remoteproc: Add new resource type for resource  table spare bytes Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2016-09-15 20:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] remoteproc: Add new resource type for resource  table spare bytes loic pallardy <loic.pallardy@st.com> - 2016-09-16 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] remoteproc: Add new resource type for resource  table spare bytes Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2016-09-16 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] remoteproc: Add new resource type for resource  table spare bytes loic pallardy <loic.pallardy@st.com> - 2016-09-19 10:00 +0200

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