Re: [PATCH V3 0/9] arm64: imx8mn: Enable more imx8m Nano functions

[Tim Harvey]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:20 AM Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am Montag, dem 22.11.2021 um 09:59 -0800 schrieb Tim Harvey:
> > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 7:25 AM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 8:21 AM Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Adam,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 11:17 AM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I am using https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-atf/log/?h=lf_v2.4
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since the driver sending SMCC commands to ATF isn't doing that, I
> > > > > > assume it's safe to use the linux power-domain drivers with the ATF
> > > > > > from NXP's kernel.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you can point me to the repo you think I should be using, I'll give it a try.
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you know if the mainline TF-A repo v2.5 works too?
> > > > > https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/tree/v2.5
> > > >
> > > > That's good to know.
> > > >
> > > > I just built it into U-Boot:
> > > >
> > > > NOTICE:  BL31: v2.5(release):v2.5
> > > > NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 08:24:13, Nov 21 2021
> > > >
> > > > The Etnaviv driver is still loading without hanging
> > > >
> > > > root@beacon-imx8mn-kit:~# dmesg |grep -i etna
> > > > [   12.393936] etnaviv etnaviv: bound 38000000.gpu (ops gpu_ops [etnaviv])
> > > > [   12.400676] etnaviv-gpu 38000000.gpu: model: GC7000, revision: 6203
> > > > [   12.641297] [drm] Initialized etnaviv 1.3.0 20151214 for etnaviv on minor 0
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tim,
> > >
> > > Which version of Nano do you have?  Not all Nano SoC's have a GPU from
> > > looking at the datasheet [1] .  I am using MIMX8MN2CVTIZAA (Nano Solo)
> > >
> > > [1] - https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/IMX8MNIEC.pdf
> > >
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > The board I have here has MIMX8MN5CVTIZAA so i.MX 8M Nano QuadLite
> > with 'No GPU' as you expected.
> >
> > So I have to add the following to keep my board from hanging after your series:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mn-venice-gw7902.dts
> > b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mn-venice-gw7902.dts
> > index 236f425e1570..0d256a607b7c 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mn-venice-gw7902.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mn-venice-gw7902.dts
> > @@ -251,6 +251,10 @@
> >         };
> >  };
> >
> > +&gpu {
> > +       status = "disabled";
> > +};
> > +
> >  &i2c1 {
> >         clock-frequency = <100000>;
> >         pinctrl-names = "default";
> >
> > This situation is similar to the one I encountered with the
> > imx8mm-venice-gw7901 where adding the GPC node caused my board (which
> > did not power the GPU) to hang until I added disables to the
> > device-tree with commit 7973009235e2 ("arm64: dts:
> > imx8mm-venice-gw7901.dts: disable pgc_gpumix"). It feels painful to
> > have to add patches to keep things from hanging after additional
> > functionality is added to dt but perhaps that is more common than I
> > think esp for SoC's like IMX8M which have a lot of lingering support
> > still coming in.
> >
> Yea, it's unfortunate that those patches break your board, but I guess
> we need to accept this, while there is still a lot of feature work
> going on.
>
> > I don't mind at all submitting the above patch to fix my board after
> > your series is accepted as I think that having an IMX8MN with 'no gpu'
> > is perhaps less likely than having one with a GPU and thus we probably
> > shouldn't mark the node as disabled and force everyone that has a GPU
> > to go and enable it.
> >
> > I wonder however if we should think about adding something to etnaviv
> > to check the capability so that the same dt could be used with both
> > CPU variants?
>
> etnaviv or really the kernel at all is not the place to handle this.
> The DT is supposed to describe the hardware and the kernel should be
> able to trust this description.
>
> If there is some way to read the chip capabilities and avoid having too
> much DT variants in the kernel, the right place to handle this is the
> software running before the kernel is started, i.e. your bootloader.
> Barebox for example reads the SCU fuses on i.MX6 and removes the DT
> nodes for the fused off CPU cores on i.MX6S and i.MX6D.
>

Lucas,

I agree - the boot firmware is an appropriate place for this. I
believe the correct course of action in the case of the IMX8M Nano
would be to do the following for no GPU:
- disable disp_blk_ctrl node
- disable gpu node
- disable pgc_gpumix node

What would you propose to do for detection of this in boot firmware?
The DIGPROG register is currently used in U-Boot to determine IMX8M
variants including Nano
Qad/Dual/Solo/QaudLite/DualLite/SoloLite/UltraLite Quad/UltraLite
Dual/UltraLite Solo. It would appear all the 'Lite' and 'UltraLite'
variants have no GPU.

Best regards,

Tim