[PATCH v24 0/7] soc: mediatek: SVS: introduce MTK SVS
Matthias Brugger
matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 08:38:18 PDT 2022
On 22/04/2022 04:24, Roger Lu wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 12:41 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> Roger Lu <roger.lu at mediatek.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 16:22 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> That being said, it would be really nice to see an integration tree
>>>> where this was all tested on mainline (e.g. v5.17, or v5.18-rc)
>>>>
>>>> For example, I can apply this to v5.18-rc2 and boot on my mt8183-pumpkin
>>>> board, it fails to probe[1] because there is no CCI node in the upstream
>>>> mt8183.dtsi.
>>>>
>>>> I'm assuming this series is also not very useful without the CPUfreq
>>>> series from Rex, so being able to test this, CCI and CPUfreq together on
>>>> MT8183 on a mainline kernel would be very helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> [ 0.573332] mtk-svs 1100b000.svs: cannot find cci node
>>>> [ 0.574061] mtk-svs 1100b000.svs: error -ENODEV: svs platform probe
>>>> fail
>>>
>>> Just share. I've tested this series on below two platforms and it works as
>>> expected.
>>> - mt8183-Krane (kernel-v5.10)
>>> - mt8192-Hayato (kernel-v5.4)
>>
>> Unfortunately testing on v5.4 and v5.10 with lots of other additional
>> out-of-tree patches does not give much confidence that this series works
>> with upstream, especially when I've given a few reasons why it will not
>> work uptream.
>>
>> The examples I gave above for CCI and CPUs/cluster disable are good
>> examples, but another one I forgot to mention is the dependency on Mali.
>> The SVS driver will never probe because it also depens on a "mali" node,
>> which doesn't exist upstream either (but panfrost does, and acutually
>> loads/probes fine on v5.17/v5.18) so this should be fixed to work with
>> upstream panfrost.
>>
>> IMO, in order for this to be merged upstream, it should at least have
>> some basic validation with upstream, and so far I have not even been
>> able to make it successfuly probe. To do that, you will need to either
>> provide a list of the dependencies for testing this with mainline
>> (e.g. CCI series, CPUfreq series, any DT changes), or even better, an
>> integration tree based on recent mainline (e.g. v5.17 stable, or
>> v5.18-rc) which shows all the patches (in addition to this series) used
>> to validate this on mainline.
>
> No problem. We'll find a machine that can be run correctly with recent mainline
> (e.g. v5.17 stable, or v5.18-rc) and add patches (CCI series + CPUfreq series +
> any DT changes) to test this SVS series. Thanks very much.
>
Thanks Roger. I'll wait until this got tested with upstream Linux, before I will
apply all the patches.
Regards,
Matthias
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