Re: [PATCH v2] drm/imagination: DRM_POWERVR should depend on ARCH_K3

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Maxime,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 5:18 PM Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 01:50:09PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Using the Imagination Technologies PowerVR Series 6 GPU requires a
> > proprietary firmware image, which is currently only available for Texas
> > Instruments K3 AM62x SoCs.  Hence add a dependency on ARCH_K3, to
> > prevent asking the user about this driver when configuring a kernel
> > without Texas Instruments K3 Multicore SoC support.
>
> This wasn't making sense the first time you sent it, and now that commit
> log is just plain wrong. We have firmwares for the G6110, GX6250,
> GX6650, BXE-4-32, and BXS-4-64 models, which can be found on (at least)
> Renesas, Mediatek, Rockchip, TI and StarFive, so across three

I am so happy to be proven wrong!
Yeah, GX6650 is found on e.g. R-Car H3, and GX6250 on e.g. R-Car M3-W.

> architectures and 5 platforms. In two months.

That sounds like great progress, thanks a lot!

Where can I find these firmwares? Linux-firmware[1] seems to lack all
but the original K3 AM62x one.

Thanks again!

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmwaregit/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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