Hi Lucas,
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 18:56 +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.11.2017, 17:36 +0000 schrieb Alexey Brodkin:
[snip]
> I'm not keen on having a private memory region for the GPU. Normally we
> just use the shared system CMA memory region (and we will point the
> linear memory window there on MC2.0 GPUs), which has the added benefit
> that we can map the contiguous framebuffers allocated by another device
> through the linear window, which is a crucial performance optimization
> for the MMUv1 GPUs.
>
> The only time where we really need to know the start of RAM is on MC1.0
> GPUs which have a hardware bug in the TS unit, so we try to avoid
> moving the linear window at all to work around that. In that case the
> PHYS_OFFSET check is really there to avoid the situation where the
> linear window would not allow any RAM to be reached at all. Then we
> need to move the window, but disable any TS functionality, impacting
> performance a lot.
Thanks a lot fro explanation!
> As MC1.0 GPUs are hopefully on the way out with new designs using MC2.0
> this shouldn't be much of a problem going forward. Maybe we can even
> simply solve this issue by just dropping the check if PHYS_OFFSET isn't
> defined.
I guess something like that should work then:
-------------------------------->8--------------------------------
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
index fc9a6a83dfc7..5ad191a605e2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.c
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ int etnaviv_gpu_init(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu)
goto fail;
}
+#ifdef PHYS_OFFSET
/*
* Set the GPU linear window to be at the end of the DMA window, where
* the CMA area is likely to reside. This ensures that we are able to
@@ -699,6 +700,7 @@ int etnaviv_gpu_init(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu)
gpu->memory_base = PHYS_OFFSET;
gpu->identity.features &= ~chipFeatures_FAST_CLEAR;
}
+#endif
ret = etnaviv_hw_reset(gpu);
if (ret) {
-------------------------------->8--------------------------------
> At least I hope VeriSilicon didn't sell you a MC1.0 part at
> this time...
Given "chipMinorFeatures0_MC20" bit is set for us I would think that we
indeed have MC2.0 in our chip.
-Alexey
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