Re: [PATCH v1 RESEND 2/2] drm/panfrost: Add basic support for speed binning

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Fri Mar 31 2023 - 05:48:18 EST


On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:11:07 +0200
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Il 23/03/23 10:08, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno ha scritto:
> > Some SoCs implementing ARM Mali GPUs are subject to speed binning:
> > this means that some versions of the same SoC model may need to be
> > limited to a slower frequency compared to the other:
> > this is being addressed by reading nvmem (usually, an eFuse array)
> > containing a number that identifies the speed binning of the chip,
> > which is usually related to silicon quality.
> >
> > To address such situation, add basic support for reading the
> > speed-bin through nvmem, as to make it possible to specify the
> > supported hardware in the OPP table for GPUs.
> > This commit also keeps compatibility with any platform that does
> > not specify (and does not even support) speed-binning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello maintainers,
> I've seen that this got archived in the dri-devel patchwork; because of that and
> only that, I'm sending this ping to get this patch reviewed.

Series queued to drm-misc-next.