On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 04:27:38AM +0100, Karol Herbst wrote: > I tried to look into it, but my jetson nano, just constantly behaves > in very strange ways. I tried to compile and install a 6.1 kernel onto > it, but any kernel just refuses to boot and I have no idea what's up > with that device. The kernel starts to boot and it just stops in the > middle. From what I can tell is that most of the tegra devices never > worked reliably in the first place and there are a couple of random > and strange bugs around. I've attached my dmesg, so if anybody has any > clues why the kernel just stops doing anything, it would really help > me. Hello, Thank you for looking into this! I have seen this type of hang in mainline on this SoC, and it was due to a reset not being deasserted. Would you mind getting a log with initcall_debug enabled to pinpoint where the hang occurs? I would be happy to help if I can. > But maybe it would be for the best to just pull tegra support out of > nouveau, because in the current situation we really can't spare much > time dealing with them and we are already busy enough just dealing > with the desktop GPUs. And the firmware we got from Nvidia is so > ancient and different from the desktop GPU ones, that without actually > having all those boards available and properly tested, we can't be > sure to not break them. > > And afaik there are almost no _actual_ users, just distribution folks > wanting to claim "support" for those devices, but then ending up using > Nvidia's out of tree Tegra driver in deployments anyway. > If there are actual users using them for their daily life, I'd like to > know, because I'm aware of none. For what it's worth, I consider myself a user of nouveau. Granted, I'm using it as a hobby project, but in its current state it is not far from a usable desktop experience on the Pixel C. Diogo
