Re: [PATCH mvebu v2 00/10] Armada 37xx: Fix cpufreq changing base CPU speed to 800 MHz from 1000 MHz

From: Pali Rohár
Date: Tue Feb 09 2021 - 20:28:46 EST


On Tuesday 09 February 2021 14:52:56 nnet wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, at 2:42 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 February 2021 13:45:08 nnet wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 09 February 2021 13:00:26 nnet wrote:
> > > > > > If you have other Armada 3720 boards (Espressobin v5/v7, uDPU, Devel Board, ...) then it will be nice to do an additional tests and check if instability issues are finally fixed.
> > > > >
> > > > > These patches applied to the 5.4.96 in OpenWrt (98d61b5) work fine so far on an Espressobin v7 AFAICT per changing values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are these changes intended to work @1.2 GHz on the v7?
> > > >
> > > > Hello! Do you have 1.2 GHz A3720 SoC?
> > >
> > > Maybe (not)? ESPRESSObin_V7_1-0 on the underside.
> >
> > Look at the package of SoC chip. On top of the package is printed
> > identifier 88F3720. On the last line should be one of the string:
> > C080, C100, C120, I080, I100 which identifies frequency
> > (080 = 800 MHz, 100 = 1 GHz, 120 = 1.2 GHz)
> >
> > Can you check what is printed on A3720 SoC package?
>
> Both of mine are 88F3720-A0-C120.

Interesting... it is really 1.2 GHz. I have not seen it yet. And few
weeks ago I thought that it was never available on market.

Well, if 1.2 GHz variant has same issues as 1 GHz variants then this
patch series should fix it. But you said that with this patch series is
board crashing when running at 1.2 GHz?