Hi all,
I’m excited to see that the small core now can run FreeRTOS.
As mentioned in Duo firmware v1.0.5, it says:
- FSBL itself already supports dual-core startup, and you can use kernel remoteproc to start the small core’s ELF.
- BL2 will first load the FreeRTOS binary from the flash into memory and start the small core. After that, BL2 loads OpenSBI/U-Boot/Kernel to run on the big core.
I followed this post Milk-v Duo Compilation Process Part II- Compiling Small Core FreeRTOS, which explains quite detailed info how FreeRTOS is built, to trace the symbols defined for FreeRTOS, such as BLCP_2ND_RUNADDR is the address to run on the small core.
However, I get stuck at FSBL stage because I could not find any source code that let FSBL load FreeRTOS image cvirtos.bin to BLCP_2ND_RUNADDR and wake up the small core.
In Duo Buildroot SDK, FSBL is almost pre-built, when I refer to https://github.com/milkv-duo/duo-buildroot-sdk/blob/develop/fsbl/plat/cv180x/bl2/bl2_main.c, only init_comm_info() function is related to FreeRTOS.
So, I have few questions, please kindly guide me on them:
- Where can I get the full source to to understand how BL2 load the FreeRTOS and wake up the small core?
- Is there any document should I look at for better understaning the boot up of dual-core system?