Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for Allwinner H6 DVFS
From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Mon Apr 20 2020 - 08:47:53 EST
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:36:32PM +0200, ClÃment PÃron wrote:
> Hi Ondrej, Maxime,
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 12:39, OndÅej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Maxime,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:45:47AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 03:50:04PM +0200, ClÃment PÃron wrote:
> > > > Now that required drivers are merged we can contibute on DVFS
> > > > support for Allwinner H6.
> > > >
> > > > This serie is based on Yangtao Li serie[0] and OndÅej Jirman work[1].
> > > >
> > > > Most of the OPP tables are taken from original vendor kernel[2].
> > > > Plus there are new CPU frequencies at 1.6GHz, 1.7GHz and 1.8GHz.
> > > >
> > > > I wrote a simple script to randomly set a frequency during
> > > > a random time[3]. This script is quite stressfull and set some high
> > > > frequency without checking temperature. This can result on behavior
> > > > that whould not occurs with the real cpufreq framework.
> > > > As Maxime point out I also tested with cpufreq-ljt-stress-test
> > > > (found here https://github.com/ssvb/cpuburn-arm).
> > > > This script doesn't trigger any issue.
> > > > I also test that that offlining CPU0 and doing DVFS on other CPUs
> > > > works. As CPU regulator is only set for CPU0.
> > > >
> > > > The GPU devfreq was drop as the regulator is still not properly
> > > > drive by panfrost driver[4].
> > > > I will re-introduce it later.
> > > >
> > > > OndÅej Jirman has an Orange Pi 3, Jernej has a PineH64 and a Tanix
> > > > TX6 boards and I have a Beelink GS1 board so I have enable these
> > > > boards. But CPU Devfreq is really touchy has it depends on:
> > > > board design, SoC speed_grade and environement which can affect
> > > > thermal cooling and have different behavior for different user.
> > > >
> > > > If people can test this serie and give feedback, I will try to
> > > > introduce this in LibreElec tree, so LE community can test it.
> > >
> > > Applied all of them, thanks!
> >
> > Please also apply "[PATCH v2 1/7] arm64: dts: allwinner: h6: Add
> > clock to CPU cores" from the v2 series, otherwise cpufreq will
> > not work.
> >
> > I can also send a missing patch adding the trip points, and cpu
> > as a cooling device, that I linked in my other reply to this patch
> > series afterwards, if ClÃment wants.
>
> Indeed I have sent using the following cmd : "git send-email --to=XXXX HEAD~7"
> from the previous version.
>
> I should had do Instead: "git send-email --to=XXXX next/master "
>
> Sorry for that :(
I haven't pushed anything yet, can you resend the proper branch?
Thanks!
Maxime
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