[PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add finer-grained PWM states for the fan on Rock 5C
Dragan Simic
dsimic at manjaro.org
Mon Jan 20 12:08:49 PST 2025
Hello Alexey,
On 2025-01-20 20:22, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> Radxa Heatsink 6540B, which is the official cooling accessory for the
> Rock 5C board, includes a small 5V fan, which in my testing spins up
> reliably at a PWM setting of 24 (out of 255). It is also quite loud
> at the current minimum setting of 64, and noticeably less so at 24.
>
> Introduce two intermediate PWM states at the lower end of the fan's
> operating range to enable better balance between noise and cooling.
>
> Note further that, in my testing, having the fan run at 44 is enough
> to keep the system from thermal throttling with sustained 100% load
> on its 8 CPU cores (in 22C ambient temperature and no case)
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
Thanks for the patch, it's looking good to me and the explanations
are fine. Please, feel free to include
Acked-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588s-rock-5c.dts | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588s-rock-5c.dts
> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588s-rock-5c.dts
> index
> 9b14d5383cdc16947c955b1c6e2a32a50c5df3e6..1b66a69cf0f8795d7305852fa7fef3d0672ada7f
> 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588s-rock-5c.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588s-rock-5c.dts
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ led-1 {
> fan {
> compatible = "pwm-fan";
> #cooling-cells = <2>;
> - cooling-levels = <0 64 128 192 255>;
> + cooling-levels = <0 24 44 64 128 192 255>;
> fan-supply = <&vcc_5v0>;
> pwms = <&pwm3 0 10000 0>;
> };
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