Is it possible for a PRU to know if it is PRU0 or PRU1? I want to run the same code on both PRUs but have it do slightly different things [*]. I guess I could write a “0” to PRU0’s RAM and a “1” to PRU1’s RAM and the PRU code could test this. But is there a more direct way, such as reading a config register? I looked over the Technical Reference Manual but couldn’t find anything.
[*] Specifically, I want the PRU code to send an event to the ARM, with PRU_EVTOUT0 from PRU0 and PRU_EVTOUT1 from PRU1, so the ARM code knows which PRU sent the event. But I can’t see how to do that without the PRU knowing if it is PRU0 or PRU1.
So you are saying the firmware loaded to both PRUs has to be exactly the same?
You can’t use a slightly different #define to make a different constant in PRU0 vs PRU1?
I thought of another way. Kind of crude, but it might work. This would allow the firmwares to be identical.
Assuming you have a spare PRU GPI in each, you could set the pull-up on one pin, and a pull-down on the other.
Then you just read the appropriate value of the bit in __R31. Of course you would have to carefully select the pins so they are the same bit in __R31.
So if those pins are spoken for in your application, this isn’t going to work.
Hopefully someone will know a method which is baked-in to the system.
You could have the ARM side write a unique number at a known offset into into
the PRU's DRAM area.
Then have the firmware read it from 0x0000+offset.
Each PRU's DRAM is mapped into 0x0000 (as seen from the PRU).
The ARM sees PRU0's DRAM at PRUBASE + 0x0000 and PRU's DRAM at PRUBASE +
0x2000.
For eample:
So before loading, write 0x10 to PRUBASE + 0x0004 and 0x20 to PRUBASE +
0x2004. 0x10 and 0x20 are just 2 unique values.
Then the PRU firmware can do something like (psuedo code):
If (*(0x0004) == 0x10) {
/* On PRU 0 */
} else {
/* On PRU 1 */
}