[PATCH v6 0/7] RK3576 thermal sensor support, including OTP trim adjustments

Heiko Stübner heiko at sntech.de
Thu Jul 17 00:21:22 PDT 2025


Hi Daniel,

Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2025, 22:12:53 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 02:32:36PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
> > This series adds support for the RK3576's thermal sensor.
> > 
> > The sensor has six channels, providing measurements for the package
> > temperature, the temperature of the big cores, the temperature of the
> > little cores, and the GPU, NPU and DDR controller.
> > 
> > In addition to adding support for the sensor itself, the series also
> > adds support for reading thermal trim values out of the device tree.
> > Most of this functionality is not specific to this SoC, but needed to be
> > implemented to make the sensors a little more accurate in order to
> > investigate whether the TRM swapped GPU and DDR or downstream swapped
> > GPU and DDR in terms of channel IDs, as downstream disagrees with what's
> > in the TRM, and the difference is so small and hard to pin down with
> > testing that the constant offset between the two sensors was a little
> > annoying for me to deal with.
> > 
> > I ended up going with the channel assignment the TRM lists, as I see the
> > DDR sensor get a larger deviation from baseline temperatures during memory
> > stress tests (stress-ng --memrate 8 --memrate-flush) than what the TRM
> > claims is the GPU sensor but downstream claims is the DDR sensor. Input
> > from Rockchip engineers on whether the TRM is right or wrong welcome.
> > 
> > The trim functionality is only used by RK3576 at the moment. Code to
> > handle other SoCs can rely on the shared otp reading and perhaps even
> > the IP revision specific function, but may need its own IP revision
> > specific functions added as well. Absent trim functionality in other
> > SoCs should not interfere with the modified common code paths.
> > 
> > Patch 1 is a cleanup patch for the rockchip thermal driver, where a
> > function was confusingly named.
> > 
> > Patch 2 adds the RK3576 compatible to the bindings.
> > 
> > Patch 3 adds support for this SoC's thermal chip to the driver. It is a
> > port of the downstream commit adding support for this.
> > 
> > Patch 4 adds some documentation for imminent additional functionality to
> > the binding, namely the trim value stuff.
> > 
> > Patch 5 adds support for reading these OTP values in the
> > rockchip_thermal driver, and makes use of them. The code is mostly new
> > upstream code written by me, using downstream code as reference.
> 
> Replaced previously applied version V5 with this V6 patches 1-5

are these commits available somewhere?

Because git.kernel.org reports that
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thermal/linux.git
has not seen activity in a while?

Thanks
Heiko





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