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OpenAMP Design Details

This section provides an introduction to Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and detailed design of the OpenAMP architecture components. For an introduction please refer to OpenAMP Architecture section.

Contents:

• Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) Intro
• Components and Capabilities
  • Life Cycle Management through RemoteProc
    • LCM Overview
    • Creation and Boot of Remote Firmware Using remoteproc
    • Resource Table
  • Inter Process Communications (IPC) through RPMsg Protocol
    • RPMsg Protocol Layers
    • RPMsg Communication Flow
  • Topologies
  • Proxy and RPC
  • Abstraction
• System Wide Considerations
  • Determine system topology
  • Determine system and IO resource partitioning
  • Determine memory layout
  • Ensure cooperative usage of shared resources between software environments in the AMP system
• OpenAMP Design Docs
  • Data Structures
    • Remoteproc data structures
    • Virtio Data Structures
    • RPMsg virtio Data struct
    • RPMsg Data struct
  • Remoteproc Design Document
    • Remoteproc LCM States
    • State Transition
    • Remote User APIs
  • RPMsg Design Document
    • RPMsg User API Flow Charts
    • RPMsg User APIs
    • RPMsg User Defined Callbacks