On 2026-06-23T06:47:53, Varadarajan Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > misc: qcom_geni: Add minicore support > > The qcom_geni driver reads an ELF from storage and configures a set of > registers and programs the firmware to the GENI Serial Engine (GENI-SE) > wrapper device for the expected functionality. > > Unlike the GENI-SE wrapper found in MSM SoCs, the IPQ5210's GENI-SE > wrapper is pre-configured for one of the functions defined in 'enum > geni_se_protocol_type'. Hence, the firmware download is not needed. > Only the register configuration part is needed. > > Earlier, the boot stages before U-Boot would configure the GENI-SE (to > access UART/SPI etc). Since for IPQ5210 U-Boot SPL, the previous stage > (i.e. boot ROM) doesn't do that modify the driver to do the register > configuration part alone without reading an ELF from the storage. > > Signed-off-by: Varadarajan Narayanan <[email protected]> > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 6 +++ > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/misc/qcom_geni-minicore.c | 102 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/misc/qcom_geni.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > include/soc/qcom/geni-se.h | 5 ++ > include/soc/qcom/qup-fw-load.h | 12 +++++ > 6 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
