On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:03 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> actually PRU uio is only broken in ti's v4.1.x branch..  as the
>> remoteproc_pruss driver isn't upstream yet, you can renable uio_prus
>> in v4.1.x-bone/v4.2.x-bone/v4.3.x-bone  i've intentionally disabled it
>> in those branches just so users don't get to use to it..
>
>
> I'd like a say in that matter myself. e.g. distinctive *bone*, and *ti*
> kernels. But I suppose that a kernel config option that can be changed later
> to something else ?

*ti* = whatever ti.com want's to push, plus our overlay patches on top
to make it useful. ;)

*bone* = mainline + overlay...

> Here is the problem I'm seeing with  being forced to move to remoteproc.
> Documentation on the web completely sucks. Essentially, it's limited to a
> linux/Documentation/*.txt file. Which to me did not seem very informative.
> For me though, I tend to understand better if there is a working example.
> Setup, and all that. Then I can actually learn as I tinker with this
> example, and read the documentation bit by bit.
>
> In the end, I think remoteproc seems like very cool software technology.
> However, if there is limited to no documentation on the subject. Then it
> pretty much is useless . . . I've already seen several blog posts concerning
> the BBB, and remoteproc. They all seem to be in a holding pattern, because
> they can not seem to get things rolling.
>
> At least with using the PRU the "old way" we actually have something to work
> with . . .

Which is why we still have  Elias Bakken's pru patches from 3.8 still
in the tree..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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