Re: Bug#1029850: linux: Driver not loaded for ST Microelectronics LSM6DS3TR-C accelerometer (acpi:SMO8B30:SMO8B30:)

[Darrell Kavanagh]

Thank you. I don't have anything that could be called a big machine.
The fastest processor I have access to is a Core m3-8100Y - that's in
a Chromebook with 4GB memory - it can run Linux in a chroot or
officially in Google's VM. I also have an ancient gen 2 core i5-2410M
machine which is slower than the m3 in theory, but that has 6GB of
memory.

Is the kernel build more processor or memory bound?

Thanks,
Darrell

On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 at 16:12, Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2023-02-01 at 12:00 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2/1/23 11:28, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 01:40:49 +0000
> > > Darrell Kavanagh <darrell.kavanagh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, all.
> > > >
> > > > I've finally reached a conclusion on this, after testing all the
> > > > combinations of the patches (with and without reading the acpi
> > > > mounting matrix), window managers (wayland, xorg) and the
> > > > presence or
> > > > not of my custom kernel parms.
> > > >
> > > > What works well is the full set of patches with the custom kernel
> > > > parms and a new hwdb entry for the sensor:
> > > >
> > > > sensor:modalias:acpi:SMO8B30*:dmi:*:svnLENOVO*:pn82AT:*
> > > >  ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX=0, 1, 0; -1, 0, 0; 0, 0, 1
> > > >
> > > > The autorotate then works correctly in wayland and xorg, but for
> > > > xorg,
> > > > the settings say the screen is "portrait left" when in actual
> > > > fact it
> > > > is in standard laptop landscape orientation. Wayland does not
> > > > have
> > > > this problem (I guess because wayland's view of the screen is
> > > > straight
> > > > from the kernel).
> > > >
> > > > Without the hwdb entry, the orientation is 90 degrees out without
> > > > using the acpi matrix and 180 degrees out when using it. I could
> > > > have
> > > > gone either way here with appropriate hwdb entries, but my view
> > > > is
> > > > that we *should* be using the matrix.
> > >
> > > Added Hans de Goede as he has probably run into more of this mess
> > > than anyone else.  Hans, any thoughts on if we are doing something
> > > wrong on kernel side?  Or is the matrix just wrong *sigh*
> >
> > I see below that this laptop has a panel which is mounted 90 degrees
> > rotated, that likely explains why the ACPI matrix does not work.
> > So the best thing to do here is to just override it with a hwdb
> > entries.
> >
> > IIRC there are already 1 or 2 other hwdb entries which actually
> > override the ACPI provided matrix because of similar issues.
> >
> > Linux userspace expects the matrix in this case to be set so that
> > it causes e.g. gnome's auto-rotation to put the image upright
> > even with older gnome versions / mate / xfce which don't know about
> > the panel being mounted 90 degrees.
> >
> > So e.g. "monitor-sensor" will report left-side-up or right-side-up
> > while the device is actually in normal clamshell mode with the
> > display up-right.
> >
> > This reporting of left-side-up or right-side-up is actually "correct"
> > looking from the native LCD panel orientation and as mentioned is
> > done for backward compatibility. This is documented here:
> >
> > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/hwdb.d/60-sensor.hwdb#L54
> >
> > The way we are handling this is likely incompatible with how Windows
> > handles this special case of 90° rotated screen + ROTM. Or the
> > matrix in the ACPI tables could be just wrong...
> >
> > > I think 'ROTM' is defined by MS.
> > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/sensors/sensors-acpi-entries
> >
> > Right and as such it would be good if we can still add support to
> > it to the sensor driver in question. Because the ROTM info usually
> > is correct and avoids the need for adding more and more hwdb entries.
> >
> > Note there already is existing support in some other sensor drivers.
> >
> > So we probably need to factor out some helper code for this and share
> > that between sensor drivers.
> >
> >
> > > > The only thing that concerns me is the need for custom kernel
> > > > parms.
> > > > It would be better if there was a way to avoid this, so that the
> > > > user
> > > > didn't have to mess around with their grub config. Though having
> > > > said
> > > > that, the sensors fix as we have it doesn't make things worse -
> > > > under
> > > > currently released kernels the screen always starts up sideways
> > > > unless
> > > > custom parms are added in grub.
> >
> > We actually have a quirk mechanism in the kernel for specifying
> > the need for: video=DSI-1:panel_orientation=right_side_up  and this
> > will also automatically fix the fbcon orientation, see:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel_orientation_quirks.c
> >
> > If you submit a patch for this upstream please Cc me.
>
> And if after that change, and copy/pasting the orientation from the
> DSDT into hwdb the sensor and screen move in the expected ways, then
> maybe stealing the BMC150 driver's
> bmc150_apply_bosc0200_acpi_orientation() might be a good idea.
>
> Once exported through "mount_matrix", iio-sensor-proxy should see it
> and read it without the need for a hwdb entry.
>
> Cheers