Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] arm64: dts: rockchip: rk3588-evb1: Enable GPU

From: Sebastian Reichel
Date: Mon Mar 25 2024 - 13:21:54 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 04:53:08PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> [...]
> > @@ -484,12 +490,15 @@ rk806_dvs3_null: dvs3-null-pins {
> >
> > regulators {
> > vdd_gpu_s0: dcdc-reg1 {
> > + regulator-always-on;
>
> IIRC, this is only needed because of some bug in the power-domain
> driver (or elsewhere). Is there any other reason to flag those as
> always-on? I mean, it's working but probably not ideal from a PM
> standpoint, as that means the regulators will stay on even when the GPU
> is idle.

EVB1 needs it for the generic coupler infrastructure. The Linux
coupler code cannot handle non always-on regulators at the moment.
That's something, which could be improved, but I think for now we
can just make the regulator always-on for the EVB1. The EVB1 is not
running from a battery anyways.

Greetings

-- Sebastian

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