On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 02:49:54PM +0000, Shenwei Wang wrote:
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 3:09 PM
> > To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.w...@nxp.com>
> > Cc: Bjorn Andersson <anders...@kernel.org>; Mathieu Poirier
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> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: remoteproc: imx_rproc: Add 
> > "rpmsg"
> > subnode support
> > > Each subnode within "rpmsg" represents an individual RPMSG channel.
> > > The name of each subnode corresponds to the channel name as defined by
> > > the remote processor.
> > >
> > > All remote devices associated with a given channel are defined as
> > > child nodes under the corresponding channel node.
> > 
> > How is each channel addressed? Are they really grouped by type first (i2c, 
> > gpio,
> > etc.) then an address within the group? Or is there some flat channel 
> > numbering?
> > If the latter, then the addresses in the DT shoulc match the channel number.
> > 
> 
> Yes, the channels are grouped by type and identified by unique channel names 
> assigned 
> by the remote processor.
> 
> The RPMSG bus dynamically assigns addresses to each channel at runtime. 
> Because these 
> addresses are not static, they cannot be pre-defined in the dts.

But you did define addresses. How do you know which channel 'gpio@1' 
corresponds to if RPMSG dynamically assigns addresses?

Rob

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