rpi: suspicious log messages from vc4_hdmi & raspberrypi-power

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi,
while testing my old Raspberry Pi 3 B Plus with a mostly recent mainline 
kernel, I noticed some suspicious messages in the log, which are new to 
my eyes:

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 7.2.0-14759-gf6ce17b2c3b2 (stern at schenker) 
(arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1) 13.3.0, GNU ld 
(GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.42) #60 SMP Thu Sep  3 20:31:50 CEST 2026
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fd034] revision 4 (ARMv7), 
cr=10c5383d
[    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing 
instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3
...
[    0.619485] raspberrypi-firmware firmware:rpi-firmware: Attached to 
firmware from 2024-05-24T15:31:28
...
NEW [   12.637746] raspberrypi-power firmware:rpi-firmware:power: 
sync_state() pending due to 3f806000.vec
NEW [   12.645164] raspberrypi-power firmware:rpi-firmware:power: 
sync_state() pending due to 3f902000.hdmi
NEW [   12.652442] raspberrypi-power firmware:rpi-firmware:power: 
sync_state() pending due to 3fc00000.v3d
...
[   28.835362] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f400000.hvs (ops 0xbf2c6984)
NEW [   28.839062] vc4_hdmi 3f902000.hdmi: DTS/ACPI name 'rx' not found, 
legacy failed (-19)
...
NEW [   28.879525] vc4_hdmi 3f902000.hdmi: Could not create device link 
to hdmi-audio-codec.1.auto
...
[   28.889098] input: vc4-hdmi HDMI Jack as 
/devices/platform/soc/3f902000.hdmi/sound/card0/input2
...
[   28.901895] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f902000.hdmi (ops 0xbf2c3fb8)
[   28.902040] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f806000.vec (ops 0xbf2c6498)
[   28.902164] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f004000.txp (ops 0xbf2c7720)
[   28.902240] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f206000.pixelvalve (ops 0xbf2c20ec)
[   28.902323] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f207000.pixelvalve (ops 0xbf2c20ec)
[   28.902394] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3f807000.pixelvalve (ops 0xbf2c20ec)
[   28.911383] vc4-drm gpu: bound 3fc00000.v3d (ops 0xbf2c7c54)

Is it worth to investigate or expected?

Best regards