Hello,
I am using an iMX8QXP MEK rev B0 board and have to start the communication between the M4 and A35 cores.
I've started with the multicore examples provided in the FreeRTOS SDK from NXP.
My current setup is the following:
I didn't change the build parameters, I compiled using gcc by exporting the ARMGCC_DIR with the crosscompiler path and running the build_debug.sh script included in the sdk.
The goal is to build the rpmsg_lite_pingpong_rtos_linux from the multicore examples available in the SDK.
From the IMX8 yocto project, I've built my own u-boot and kernel and did all the steps to create a boot image using mk-image utility and including all the sfcw, ahab container, bl31 and so on images in a fit image.
I'm stopping the boot process in u-boot, loading the m4 core 0 image using:
$ fatload mmc 1:1 0x80280000 m4_image.bin
On the serial console of the m4 core, I get the
RPMSG Ping-Pong FreeRTOS RTOS API Demo...
RPMSG Share Base Addr is 0x90000000
then I boot the Linux on the A core and load the imx_rpmsg_pingpong.ko module, but nothing happens.
With the same environment (u-boot, kernel, ko) but an m4 image obtained from the yocto project imx8qx_m4_TCM_rpmsg_lite_pingpong_rtos_linux_remote.bin prebuilt by NXP, then I get the following correct behavior:
RPMSG Ping-Pong FreeRTOS RTOS API Demo...
RPMSG Share Base Addr is 0x90000000
/* Here I boot the A35 core */
Nameservice announce sent.
/* Here I am loading the imx_rpmsg_pingpong.ko on the linux side */
This points to the fact that my build of the m4 image is not completely ok.
In the FreeRTOS demo, the point where it hangs is
while (!rpmsg_lite_is_link_up(my_rpmsg))
;
