Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Fix kernel oops when rockchip,pmu is absent

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2020-06-23 09:55, Heiko StÃbner wrote:
> Am Montag, 22. Juni 2020, 17:07:52 CEST schrieb Marc Zyngier:

[...]

> > maz@fine-girl:~$ sudo dtc -I dtb /sys/firmware/fdt 2>/dev/null | grep 
> > -A
> > 5 dmc
> > 	dmc {
> > 		u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
> > 		compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-dmc";
> > 		devfreq-events = <0xc8>;
> >
> > [followed by a ton of timings...]
> >
> > It is definitely coming from u-boot (I don't provide any DTB 
> > otherwise,
> > and you can find the corresponding node and timings in the u-boot 
> > tree).
>
> which is probably the source of the problem :-) .
>
> I'm pretty sure the "reviewed" binding in the kernel doesn't match the
> dt-nodes used in uboot.

and the driver doesn't match the binding either. Frankly, this is badly
messed up.

> While u-boot these days syncs the main devicetrees from Linux, the 
> memory
> setup stuff is pretty specific to uboot (and lives in separate dtsi 
> files).
>
> And I guess you're the only one feeding uboot's dtb to Linux directly, 
> hence
> nobody else did encounter this before ;-) .

I'm not "feeding" it directly. I'm using the expected DT distribution
mechanism, which is the boot firmware. Nobody should ever have to 
provide
their own DT to the kernel.

Thanks,

        M. (starting to like ACPI more and more every day)
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