Re: simple-framebuffer enquire

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 26-06-18 16:42, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> Hi Hans
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
> <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > On 26-06-18 15:29, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > to be more specific
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
> > > > <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue., 26 Jun. 2018, 12:01 pm Hans de Goede, <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 25-06-18 15:29, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Hans
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > In order to let it even registered the simplefb I have added this
> > > > > > > change. According on what I understand
> > > > > > > from the code seems that this is the way to acquire memory with the
> > > > > > > correct attribute
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
> > > > > > > b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
> > > > > > > index a3c44ec..7e61ce3 100644
> > > > > > > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
> > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
> > > > > > > @@ -466,8 +466,8 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device
> > > > > > > *pdev)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >            info->fbops = &simplefb_ops;
> > > > > > >            info->flags = FBINFO_DEFAULT | FBINFO_MISC_FIRMWARE;
> > > > > > > -       info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(info->fix.smem_start,
> > > > > > > -                                      info->fix.smem_len);
> > > > > > > +       info->screen_base = arch_memremap_wb(info->fix.smem_start,
> > > > > > > +                                            info->fix.smem_len);
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm not sure why you need this?  wb certainly is not optimal
> > > > > > for a framebuffer, the existing wc mapping is really what you
> > > > > > want.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well in this way raise a WARN and get a nice NULL on memory remap on
> > > > > imx6ull
> > > > > SoC
> > > >
> > > > [    0.397484] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c:303
> > > > __arm_ioremap_pfn_caller+0x80/0x1cc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is causes by a mismatch in memory attributes, which means the
> > > memory is already mapped by the kernel as regular RAM and may
> > > already be used for other purposes by the kernel!
> > >
> > > Memory used by a simplefb framebuffer must be reserved by the
> > > bootloader, so that it does not get used by the kernel as regular
> > > RAM. See e.g.:
> > >
> > > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=drivers/video/sunxi/sunxi_display.c
> > >
> > > Near the end of the file where the framebuffer RAM gets excluded from
> > > the memory-range reported to the kernel as usable RAM. Note this relies
> > > on the u-boot sunxi video code putting the framebuffer at the end of the
> > > RAM.
>
> +       aliases {
> +               display0 = &lcdif;
> +       };
> +
> +       reserved-memory {
> +               #address-cells = <1>;
> +               #size-cells = <1>;
> +               ranges;
> +
> +               display_reserved: framebuffer@86fd6080 {
> +                       reg = <0x86fd6080 (480 * 272 *4)>;
> +               };
> +
>
> This should do the trick but I have still the same problem on memory
> type. Any idea?

For starters your start address and size are not page-size
(multiple of 4k aligned), you need to fix that.

After that double check in the memory map reported by the
kernel during boot that your reservation actually works.

Regards,

Hans



> +               linux,cma {
> +                       compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
> +                       reusable;
> +                       size = <0x1000000>;
> +                       linux,cma-default;
> +               };
> +       };
> +
> +       chosen {
> +               #address-cells = <1>;
> +               #size-cells = <1>;
> +               ranges;
> +
> +               stdout-path = &uart1;
> +               framebuffer0: framebuffer@86fd6080 {
> +                       compatible = "simple-framebuffer";
> +                       reg = <0x86fd6080 (480 * 272 * 4)>;
>
> Here I try to use the same. I will create in uboot a dynamic way to
> track down. I think that
> we can even add to the simple buffer a way to get hand of reserved
> region automatically
>
> Michael
>
> +                       width = <480>;
> +                       height = <272>;
> +                       stride = <(480 * 4)>;
> +                       format = "a8r8g8b8";
> +                       clocks = <&clks IMX6UL_CLK_LCDIF_PIX>,
> +                                <&clks IMX6UL_CLK_LCDIF_APB>,
> +                                <&clks IMX6UL_CLK_DUMMY>,
> +                                <&clks IMX6UL_CLK_GPIO3>,
> +                                <&clks IMX6UL_CLK_GPIO4>;
> +                       nshut-supply = <&reg_lcd_nshut>;
> +                       nreset-supply = <&reg_lcd_nreset>;
> +                       display = <&lcdif>;
> +                       status = "okay";
> +               };
>
>
>
> > >
> >
> > Thank you very much for this lesson ;). I will try to document better
> > after my tour ;)
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Hans
> >
> >
> >
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