Re: [PATCH v3 06/15] dt-bindings: display/msm: sc7180-dpu: Describe SM6125

[Marijn Suijten]

On 2023-07-20 01:24:27, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 01:09, Marijn Suijten
> <marijn.suijten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 2023-07-19 01:06:03, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > On 19/07/2023 00:24, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> > > > SM6125 is identical to SM6375 except that while downstream also defines
> > > > a throttle clock, its presence results in timeouts whereas SM6375
> > > > requires it to not observe any timeouts.  This is represented by
> > > > reducing the clock array length to 6 so that it cannot be passed.  Note
> > > > that any SoC other than SM6375 (currently SC7180 and SM6350) are
> > > > unconstrained and could either pass or leave out this "throttle" clock.
> > >
> > > Could you please describe, what kind of timeouts do you observe? Is this
> > > the DSI underruns issue?
> >
> > Ping-pong timeouts and low(er) framerate.  However, they were previosuly
> > not happening on a random boot out of tens... and now I can no longer
> > reproduce the timeout on 4 consecutive boots after adding the throttle
> > clock.  Could it perhaps be the power domains and opps that we added in
> > v2 and v3?
> 
> Quite unlikely, but who knows. My main question is whether we should
> continue skipping the throttle clocks or if it should be enabled now.

And that "main question" could ... drum roll please ... only be answered
by knowing if this got "accidentally" fixed by providing the right PMs
or some other change entirely while I changed base branch and defconfig.
Or if this is just a fluke that persisted multiple boots but will fall
apart in some time and/or when someone else runs this on their device?

- Marijn

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