Re: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Disable IOMMU support

[Marek Szyprowski]

Hello,

On 2015-03-03 21:36, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Enabling Exynos DRM IOMMU support for Exynos is currently broken and
> > causes a BUG on exynos-iommu driver. This was not an issue since the
> > options was disabled in exynos_defconfig but after commit 8dcc14f82f06
> > ("drm/exynos: IOMMU support should not be selectable by user"), it is
> > selected if EXYNOS_IOMMU is enabled which is in exynos_defconfig.
> >
> > So a kernel built using exynos_defconfig after the mentioned commit
> > fails to boot [0]. Disable IOMMU support in Exynos defconfig until
> > things get sorted out.
> So some other exynos boards started failing in next-20150303[1], and
> appear are DRM failures.
>
> Interestingly, (re)enabling CONFIG_EXYNOS_IOMMU for these cause things to
> work again.  Even more intersting, with IOMMU enabled, peach-pi is
>
> I'm starting to think it's the DRM driver that needs to be disabled
> until it actually gets some testing, rathre than disabling IOMMU.

Well, this only shows that broken patch has been merged to exynos-drm-next
kernel tree. I think that we should keep Exynos DRM enabled and give Exynos
DRM developers a chance to fix their stuff and then test their stuff.

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

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