- Next week is the last week of the program. I'll treat it like a usual week. After pencils down there is the last last week to clean things up and work on documentation so that's what I'll spend the last last week on. After that school will start and I'll get situated to continue working till the real deadline: the GNU Radio Conference.
Progress:
- I have finally pushed the code for the turbo decoder dsp only test. It is in TI's code composer project format so I need to release instructions on how to compile without code composer:
https://github.com/muniza/tcp3d_dsp_test
- I successfully ran a turbo decoder test with moving data from the ARM to the DSP and vice versa using the physical pointer contiguous memory method I described on the last email. I'll clean this up and push this code sometime this weekend hopefully.
Plan for GNU Radio:
- From my talks with Pendlum, I think this approach will work for both Zynq and Keystone and any device that has shared memory with the coprocessors. I'm going to create a kernel module that is able to set aside contiguous memory. I will write some functions in GNU Radio runtime to communicate with the module through ioctl. We set a flag in the GNU Radio block to tell runtime that we should create the buffer differently using the memory functions. Basically it will still go through the same process as any other buffer the only change is that we put the buffer somewhere in the physical memory space that we allocated. We are be able to get the virtual pointer to the input and output buffers through the work function so I can have a function for translating virtual to physical which can be done through get_user_pages in the kernel module. This way we don't need to change much in GNU Radio and the ARM and any coprocessor with shared memory has direct access to the data so no need for memcpy and userspace - kernelspace transfers. I'll bring this up at the coproc dev call.
Thanks everyone for the support!