[PATCH 0/7] Add support for RPMI to U-Boot

Charles Perry charles.perry at microchip.com
Fri Jun 26 22:15:41 CEST 2026


Hello,

This series adds support for RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) to
U-Boot. RPMI is an OS-agnostic protocol for communication between an
Application Processor (AP) and a Platform Microcontroller (PuC) [1]. The
goals and purpose of RPMI are similar to ARM's SCMI.

This patchset first adds an abstraction layer for the transport
(UCLASS_RPMI), then adds two transport layer (SBI MPXY and shared memory)
and finally adds two client, or service group in RPMI jargon: Clock and
device power service groups.

This series also include a sandbox mode for which the RPMI transport
doesn't attach to a firmware but contains a simulation of a firmware. This
reuses code from librpmi [2] to create the message responses.

Apart from the spec [1], this series reuses code from the Linux SBI MPXY
driver [3], OpenSBI shared memory transport [4] and Linux RPMI clock driver
[5].

This was tested on a PIC64-HPSC SoC which features an application cluster
and a system controller with isolated address spaces, hence the need for
RPMI.  I've tested the interoperability between RPMI clients and transports
with an S-Mode U-boot (using the MPXY transport) and M-Mode U-Boot (using
shared memory transport) and the following device tree fragment:

```
	firmware {
		rpmi: mailbox at 7000000000 {
			compatible = "riscv,rpmi-shmem-mbox";
			reg = <0x70 0x00000000 0x0 0x3000>,
				<0x70 0x00003000 0x0 0x3000>,
				<0x70 0x00006000 0x0 0x1000>,
				<0x70 0x00007000 0x0 0x1000>;
			reg-names = "a2p-req", "p2a-ack", "p2a-req", "a2p-ack";
			riscv,slot-size = <64>;
			#mbox-cells = <1>;
		};

ifndef CONFIG_RISCV_MMODE
		clock-service {
			compatible = "riscv,rpmi-mpxy-clock";
			mboxes = <&rpmi 0x8>;
			riscv,sbi-mpxy-channel-id = <0x1000>;
		};

		device-power-service {
			compatible = "riscv,rpmi-mpxy-device-power";
			mboxes = <&rpmi 0x9>;
			riscv,sbi-mpxy-channel-id = <0x1001>;
		};

		mpxy_mbox: mailbox {
			compatible = "riscv,sbi-mpxy-mbox";
			#mbox-cells = <2>;
		};
endif

		sysc_clk: clock-controller {
			compatible = "riscv,rpmi-clock";
ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_MMODE
			mboxes = <&rpmi 0x8>;
else
			mboxes = <&mpxy_mbox 0x1000 0x0>;
endif
			#clock-cells = <1>;
		};

		sysc_dpwr: power-domain-controller {
			compatible = "riscv,rpmi-device-power";
ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_MMODE
			mboxes = <&rpmi 0x9>;
else
			mboxes = <&mpxy_mbox 0x1001 0x0>;
endif
			#power-domain-cells = <1>;
		};
	};
```

[1]: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-rpmi
[2]: https://github.com/riscv-software-src/librpmi
[3]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.0.10/source/drivers/mailbox/riscv-sbi-mpxy-mbox.c
[4]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/opensbi/v1.8.1/source/lib/utils/mailbox/fdt_mailbox_rpmi_shmem.c
[5]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.0.10/source/drivers/clk/clk-rpmi.c

Cc: Rahul Pathak <rahul at summations.net>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw at kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou at eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>
Cc: Romain Caritey <romain.caritey at microchip.com>
Cc: Mame Maria Mbaye <MameMaria.Mbaye at microchip.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
Cc: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
Cc: Leo Yu-Chi Liang <ycliang at andestech.com>

Charles Perry (7):
  firmware: add support for RPMI
  firmware: rpmi: add support for the SBI MPXY transport
  firmware: rpmi: add support for shared memory transport
  drivers: clk: add support for RPMI clocks
  drivers: power: add support for RPMI power domains
  firmware: rpmi: add a test and a sandbox driver
  firmware: rpmi: add a test and sandbox for device power

 MAINTAINERS                                |   9 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h               |  57 +++
 arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts                  |  23 +
 configs/sandbox_defconfig                  |   3 +
 drivers/clk/Kconfig                        |   7 +
 drivers/clk/Makefile                       |   1 +
 drivers/clk/clk_rpmi.c                     | 346 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig                   |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/Makefile                  |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/Kconfig              |  27 ++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/Makefile             |   4 +
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox-clock.c | 446 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox-power.c | 174 ++++++++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox.c       | 158 +++++++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox.h       |  48 +++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sbi-mpxy.c      | 449 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-shmem.c         | 474 +++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-uclass.c        | 138 ++++++
 drivers/power/domain/Kconfig               |   7 +
 drivers/power/domain/Makefile              |   1 +
 drivers/power/domain/rpmi-power-domain.c   | 229 ++++++++++
 include/dm/uclass-id.h                     |   1 +
 include/rpmi-uclass.h                      |  79 ++++
 include/rpmi.h                             | 159 +++++++
 include/rpmi_proto.h                       | 143 +++++++
 test/dm/Makefile                           |   1 +
 test/dm/rpmi.c                             |  69 +++
 27 files changed, 3055 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/clk/clk_rpmi.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox-clock.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox-power.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sandbox.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-sbi-mpxy.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-shmem.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/rpmi/rpmi-uclass.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/power/domain/rpmi-power-domain.c
 create mode 100644 include/rpmi-uclass.h
 create mode 100644 include/rpmi.h
 create mode 100644 include/rpmi_proto.h
 create mode 100644 test/dm/rpmi.c

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2.47.3



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