回复: [DMARC error] [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: dts: meson-s4-s905y4-khadas-vim1s: add initial device tree
Nick Xie
nick at khadas.com
Mon Jan 26 01:35:04 PST 2026
> Thanks for the patch. Since you have khadas mail I'm pretty sure you've
> had the possibility to test it on the real vim board and I just don't
> get it how it works with the voltage table above. The problem is that
> pwm is calculated incorrectly in the upstream pwm-meson driver. That
> voltage table appeared to be used in early amlogic bl loader and
> appropriate pwm is initialized from a table's record. Duty cycle value
> is translated to pwm regs correctly. Later when kernel start running
> pwm-regulator driver is probed. It reads the pwm regs, calculates back
> duty-cyle and search it in the table. Since calculation algos are not
> match and the table doesn't contain full range of 0-100% values
> regulator driver doesn't find current voltage. In such case regulator
> core sets the minimum voltage from the table [1] and the SoC may hang
> (depending on board) due to minimum voltage may be too low for the
> current frequency SoC uses.
I'm not sure about the PWM issues, but I checked on the real S905Y4 hardware
and it works.
> Or I'm missing something?
> There's not-yet-reviewed patch that fixes pwm algo [2]. There's
> calculation example in the cover letter.
> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc5/source/drivers/regulator/core.c#L1227
> [2] https://lkml.iu.edu/2412.3/00826.html
What's the status of such patches?
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Best regards
George
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