[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: sun8i-r40: Add SID node and THS calibration

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Mon Oct 5 02:02:05 PDT 2026


Hi Otavio,

thanks for sending the patch!

On 10/3/26 03:25, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Without the calibration cell, the THS driver leaves the sensor
> calibration registers at their reset value (0x800) and the reported
> temperatures drift from the real die temperature by a chip-dependent
> offset.
> 
> Add the SID node at 0x01c1b000 and wire the thermal sensor to its
> factory calibration at eFuse offset 0x40, one 16-bit word for each of
> the two sensors.
> 
> The R40 user manual gives the size of the thermal sensor key (32 bits)
> but not its offset. The vendor SDK key map names 0x48 "thermal_sensor",
> but that word is zero on all the boards checked. On an A40i running the
> Boardcon vendor kernel, the THS_0_1_CDATA register holds exactly the
> eFuse word at 0x40 (0x08780875), which confirms the location.

So in some U-Boot BSP sources on github I see 
arch/arm/include/asm/arch-sun8iw11p1/sid.h putting the sensor at 0x34 
(like the H3 or A64).
Can you check the values there? I see that Tina-Linux puts them at 0x40, 
as you reported, and it's probably more reliable there than in the 
U-Boot sources, but it's worth double checking.

The rest looks alright (checked the manual and how the compatible string 
is handled in the driver), so if you can confirm that it's 0x40:

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Thanks,
Andre

> 
> Tested on two Boardcon EMA40i (A40i) boards: THS_0_1_CDATA now holds
> the eFuse word at 0x40 of each chip (0x082d0822 and 0x083d0838) instead
> of the reset value 0x08000800.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> ---
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi
> index f0ed802a9d08e..c7c9cad695ca4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi
> @@ -485,6 +485,18 @@ ohci1: usb at 1c19400 {
>   			status = "disabled";
>   		};
>   
> +		sid: efuse at 1c1b000 {
> +			compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-r40-sid",
> +				     "allwinner,sun50i-a64-sid";
> +			reg = <0x01c1b000 0x400>;
> +			#address-cells = <1>;
> +			#size-cells = <1>;
> +
> +			ths_calibration: thermal-sensor-calibration at 40 {
> +				reg = <0x40 0x4>;
> +			};
> +		};
> +
>   		ehci2: usb at 1c1c000 {
>   			compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-r40-ehci", "generic-ehci";
>   			reg = <0x01c1c000 0x100>;
> @@ -832,7 +844,8 @@ ths: thermal-sensor at 1c24c00 {
>   			clock-names = "bus", "mod";
>   			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 36 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>   			resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_THS>;
> -			/* TODO: add nvmem-cells for calibration */
> +			nvmem-cells = <&ths_calibration>;
> +			nvmem-cell-names = "calibration";
>   			#thermal-sensor-cells = <1>;
>   		};
>   




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