Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: sun8i-r40: Add SID node and THS calibration

From: Andre Przywara

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 05:02:37 EST


Hi Otavio,

thanks for sending the patch!

On 10/3/26 03:25, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Without the calibration cell, the THS driver leaves the sensor
calibration registers at their reset value (0x800) and the reported
temperatures drift from the real die temperature by a chip-dependent
offset.

Add the SID node at 0x01c1b000 and wire the thermal sensor to its
factory calibration at eFuse offset 0x40, one 16-bit word for each of
the two sensors.

The R40 user manual gives the size of the thermal sensor key (32 bits)
but not its offset. The vendor SDK key map names 0x48 "thermal_sensor",
but that word is zero on all the boards checked. On an A40i running the
Boardcon vendor kernel, the THS_0_1_CDATA register holds exactly the
eFuse word at 0x40 (0x08780875), which confirms the location.

So in some U-Boot BSP sources on github I see arch/arm/include/asm/arch-sun8iw11p1/sid.h putting the sensor at 0x34 (like the H3 or A64).
Can you check the values there? I see that Tina-Linux puts them at 0x40, as you reported, and it's probably more reliable there than in the U-Boot sources, but it's worth double checking.

The rest looks alright (checked the manual and how the compatible string is handled in the driver), so if you can confirm that it's 0x40:

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Andre


Tested on two Boardcon EMA40i (A40i) boards: THS_0_1_CDATA now holds
the eFuse word at 0x40 of each chip (0x082d0822 and 0x083d0838) instead
of the reset value 0x08000800.

Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi
index f0ed802a9d08e..c7c9cad695ca4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun8i-r40.dtsi
@@ -485,6 +485,18 @@ ohci1: usb@1c19400 {
status = "disabled";
};
+ sid: efuse@1c1b000 {
+ compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-r40-sid",
+ "allwinner,sun50i-a64-sid";
+ reg = <0x01c1b000 0x400>;
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ ths_calibration: thermal-sensor-calibration@40 {
+ reg = <0x40 0x4>;
+ };
+ };
+
ehci2: usb@1c1c000 {
compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-r40-ehci", "generic-ehci";
reg = <0x01c1c000 0x100>;
@@ -832,7 +844,8 @@ ths: thermal-sensor@1c24c00 {
clock-names = "bus", "mod";
interrupts = <GIC_SPI 36 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_THS>;
- /* TODO: add nvmem-cells for calibration */
+ nvmem-cells = <&ths_calibration>;
+ nvmem-cell-names = "calibration";
#thermal-sensor-cells = <1>;
};