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

[Adam Ford]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:10 AM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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!
> >
> Geert,
>
> > Where can I find these firmwares? Linux-firmware[1] seems to lack all
> > but the original K3 AM62x one.
>
> I think PowerVR has a repo [1], but the last time I checked it, the
> BVNC for the firmware didn't match what was necessary for the GX6250
> on the RZ/G2M.  I can't remember what the corresponding R-Car3 model
> is.  I haven't tried recently because I was told more documentation
> for firmware porting would be delayed until everything was pushed into
> the kernel and Mesa.  Maybe there is a better repo and/or newer
> firmware somewhere else.
>
I should have doubled checked the repo contents before I sent my last
e-mail , but it appears the firmware  [2] for the RZ/G2M, might be
present now. I don't know if there are driver updates necessary. I
checked my e-mails, but I didn't see any notification, or I would have
tried it earlier.  Either way, thank you Frank for adding it.  I'll
try to test when I have some time.

> adam
>
> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/frankbinns/linux-firmware/-/tree/powervr/powervr?ref_type=heads

[2] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/frankbinns/linux-firmware/-/commit/fecb3caebf29f37221fe0a20236e5e1415d39d0b

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>
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
> >
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> >
> >                         Geert
> >
> > --
> > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker But
> > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> >                                 -- Linus Torvalds