[PATCH] drm/msm/a2xx: stop over-complaining about the legacy firmware

From: Dmitry Baryshkov

Date: Thu Nov 13 2025 - 15:40:54 EST


If the rootfs have a legacy A200 firmware, currently the driver will
complain each time the hw is reinited (which can happen a lot). E.g.
with GL testsuite the hw is reinited after each test, spamming the
console.

Make sure that the message is printed only once: when we detect the
firmware that doesn't support protection.

Fixes: 302295070d3c ("drm/msm/a2xx: support loading legacy (iMX) firmware")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c
index ec38db45d8a366e75acddbacd4810d7b7a80926f..963c0f669ee50d4568b521e2e8548e04d606d9ca 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static int a2xx_hw_init(struct msm_gpu *gpu)
* word (0x20xxxx for A200, 0x220xxx for A220, 0x225xxx for A225).
* Older firmware files, which lack protection support, have 0 instead.
*/
- if (ptr[1] == 0) {
+ if (ptr[1] == 0 && !a2xx_gpu->protection_disabled) {
dev_warn(gpu->dev->dev,
"Legacy firmware detected, disabling protection support\n");
a2xx_gpu->protection_disabled = true;

---
base-commit: b179ce312bafcb8c68dc718e015aee79b7939ff0
change-id: 20251113-a200-warn-once-55f47c138cbb

Best regards,
--
With best wishes
Dmitry