[PATCH v3] firmware/raspberrypi: raise timeout to 3s

Stefan Wahren wahrenst at gmx.net
Wed May 21 06:05:57 PDT 2025


Am 21.05.25 um 12:04 schrieb Etienne Buira:
> Raspberry firmware driver expected said firmware to answer by 1 second.
> However, some firmware versions are buggy and can take longer with
> RPI_FIRMWARE_NOTIFY_DISPLAY_DONE.
> [    2.861407] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    2.865512] Firmware transaction 0x00030066 timeout
>
> Raising the timeout to 3 seconds (ought to be enough®) doesn't trigger
> timeouts anymore for me and proceeds to the next failure.
>
> Some details about firmware debugging are available here:
> Link: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1970
>
> Signed-off-by: Etienne Buira <etienne.buira at free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst at gmx.net>

Thanks
>
> ---
> v2: coding style
> v3: commit message
>
> Stefan, feel free to edit to your liking if needed, or even take
> ownership of such one-liner, that would not be stealing.
>
>   drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
> index 7ecde6921a0a..8c45a152e3ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/raspberrypi.c
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ rpi_firmware_transaction(struct rpi_firmware *fw, u32 chan, u32 data)
>   	reinit_completion(&fw->c);
>   	ret = mbox_send_message(fw->chan, &message);
>   	if (ret >= 0) {
> -		if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&fw->c, HZ)) {
> +		if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&fw->c, 3 * HZ)) {
>   			ret = 0;
>   		} else {
>   			ret = -ETIMEDOUT;




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