Compiler/AM6548: Not able to load the firmware in R5 Controller

We are using our custom hardware with silicon V 2 . we tested the code on IDK Board with silicon V 1.

We tried To run the Sample code provided by TI SDK 7.0.1.6 on Silicon V2. We were able to run the PRU and RTU Code which did not have mbox but with the R5F sample code which contains mbox the Board goes to dead state. R5 code contains mbox which is failing. Below is the log for R5 default firmware loading.

[   10.858235] remoteproc remoteproc0: powering up 41000000.r5f
[   10.864091] remoteproc remoteproc0: Booting fw image am65x-mcu-r5f0_0-fw, size 83276
[   10.865582] platform 41000000.r5f: mbox_request_channel failed: -517
[   10.880740] remoteproc remoteproc0: can't start rproc 41000000.r5f: -16

No We have not changed any major mapping in the DTB. Only changes is for the UART and ethernet PIN MUX . we are using ICSSG1 and ICSSG2 Ethernets .

We did not try loading image using ccs. We are sing the default binaries from TI SDK 7 for the testing. Even on the default sdk binary it crashes. 

Is the default TI binary tested on SIlicon V2.

Sunita Nadampalli  Brad Griffis This issue is still open by mistake it was marked resolved.

Sarfaraz,

I got some inputs from the IPC team:

-517 is probe deferral, so I suspect the OMAP Mailbox driver is not installed or probed. A secondary probe deferral happens because ti-sci is not installed yet (Mailboxes used NavSS interrupts, which are in turn managed through ti-sci).

Make sure ls -l /sys/bus/platform/drivers/omap-mailbox is present (when installed, this will be there) and does show the probed Mailbox clusters.

Also ls -l /sys/class/mbox should show all the registered mailboxes that a consumer (remoteproc typically) can use.

Brad,

omap-mailbox and ti-sci are marked as [y] in the default config file. We have not changes the default configuration file.

ls -l /sys/class/mbox/ folder is empty. Below is the list of all modules loaded in the system. Don't know why but on our board we are getting R5F0 and R5F1 as remoteproc 18 and 19 respectively. 

~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
xfrm_user             262144  0
xfrm4_tunnel          262144  0
tunnel4               262144  1 xfrm4_tunnel
ipcomp                327680  0
xfrm_ipcomp           262144  1 ipcomp
esp4                  327680  0
xfrm_algo             262144  3 xfrm_user,xfrm_ipcomp,esp4
rng_core              262144  0
pci_endpoint_test     262144  0
ti_k3_r5_remoteproc   327680  0
pru_rproc             262144  0
pruss                 327680  1 pru_rproc
nf_log_ipv4           262144  0
nf_log_common         262144  1 nf_log_ipv4
xt_LOG                262144  0
xt_length             262144  0
ipt_REJECT            262144  0
nf_reject_ipv4        262144  1 ipt_REJECT
xt_conntrack          262144  0
xt_addrtype           262144  0
xt_mark               262144  0
iptable_filter        262144  0
xt_nat                262144  0
xt_tcpudp             262144  0
iptable_nat           262144  0
nf_nat                327680  2 xt_nat,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack          327680  3 xt_conntrack,xt_nat,nf_nat
nf_defrag_ipv4        262144  1 nf_conntrack
libcrc32c             262144  2 nf_nat,nf_conntrack
ip_tables             327680  2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat
x_tables              262144 10 xt_LOG,xt_length,ipt_REJECT,xt_conntrack,xt_addrtype,xt_mark,iptable_filter,xt_nat,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
rpmsg_kdrv_switch     262144  0
rpmsg_pru             262144  0
virtio_rpmsg_bus      327680  0
rpmsg_char            262144  0
irq_pruss_intc        262144  1 pru_rproc
ipv6                  720896 22 [permanent]
nf_defrag_ipv6        327680  2 nf_conntrack,ipv6
g_ether               262144  0
usb_f_rndis           327680  1 g_ether
u_ether               327680  2 g_ether,usb_f_rndis
libcomposite          327680  2 g_ether,usb_f_rndis
udc_core              262144  3 usb_f_rndis,u_ether,libcomposite
ftdi_sio              262144  0
usbserial             327680  1 ftdi_sio
usbcore               458752  2 ftdi_sio,usbserial
usb_common            262144  3 libcomposite,udc_core,usbcore