Hello Jonas,
On 2024-05-31 13:27, Jonas Karlman wrote:
On 2024-05-30 21:31, Dragan Simic wrote:
[snip]
That way we'll have no roadblocks if, at some point, we end up
with
having
different OPPs defined for the RK3588 and the RK3588S variants.
Or
maybe
even for the RK3582, which we don't know much about yet.
Guess we'll deal with that one once we stumble upon an actual
RK3582
board out in the wild and heading to the mainline kernel tree :)
Of course, that was just an example for the future use.
In fact, I've just discovered that Radxa has recently released Rock
5C
Lite which is based on RK3582, and starts at just $29 for the 1GB
version, making it interesting for tinkering. Especially given that
its GPU, one of the big-core clusters and one of the VPU cores seem
to
be disabled in software (u-boot) rather than in hardware, which means
there is some chance that a particular SoC specimen would actually
have them in a working condition and possible to re-enable at no
cost.
Ordered myself one to investigate :)
Yes, I also saw the RK3582-based ROCK 5C Lite a couple of days ago. :)
It seems that the disabled IP blocks are detected as defective during
the manufacturing, which means that they might work correctly, or
might
actually misbehave. It seems similar to the way old three-core AMD
Phenom II CPUs could sometimes be made quad-core.
I can confirm that the RK3582 include ip-state in OTP indicating
unusable cores, any unusable cpu core cannot be taken online and stalls
Linux kernel a few extra seconds during boot.
Thanks for this confirmation!
Started working on a patch for U-Boot to remove any broken cpu core
and/or cluster nodes, similar to what vendor U-Boot does, adopted to
work with a mainline DT for RK3588.
Nice, thanks for working on that. :)
On one of my ROCK 5C Lite board one of the cpu cores is unusable,
U-Boot
removes the related cpu cluster nodes. On another ROCK 5C Lite board
one
rkvdec core is only marked unusable and all cpu cores can be taken
online, U-Boot does nothing in this case. Guessing we should apply
similar policy as vendor U-Boot and disable cores anyway.
Just checking, you're referring to disabling the rkvdec core only,
for the latter case?
Following commit contains early work-in-progress and some debug output.
https://github.com/Kwiboo/u-boot-rockchip/commit/8cdf606e616baa36751f3b4adcfaefc781126c8c
Booting ROCK 5C Lite boards using U-Boot generic-rk3588_defconfig:
ROCK 5C Lite v1.1 (RK3582 with 1 bad cpu core):
cpu-code: 3582
cpu-version: 08 10
data: fe 21
package: 11
specification: 01
ip-state: 10 00 00
bad-state: cpu core 4
ROCK 5C Lite v1.1 (RK3582 with 1 bad rkvdec core):
cpu-code: 3582
cpu-version: 08 00
data: fe 21
package: 11
specification: 01
ip-state: 00 80 00
bad-state: rkvdec core 1
Thanks again for these nice details!
