Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] drm/panfrost: Add new compatible for Mali on the MT8183 SoC

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:37 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The "mediatek,mt8183-mali" compatible uses platform data that calls for
> getting (and managing) two regulators ("mali" and "sram") but devfreq
> does not support this usecase, resulting in DVFS not working.
>
> Since a lot of MediaTek SoCs need to set the voltages for the GPU SRAM
> regulator in a specific relation to the GPU VCORE regulator, a MediaTek
> SoC specific driver was introduced to automatically satisfy, through
> coupling, these constraints: this means that there is at all no need to
> manage both regulators in panfrost but to otherwise just manage the main
> "mali" (-> gpu vcore) regulator instead.
>
> Keeping in mind that we cannot break the ABI, the most sensible route
> (avoiding hacks and uselessly overcomplicated code) to get a MT8183
> node with one power supply was to add a new "mediatek,mt8183b-mali"
> compatible, which effectively deprecates the former.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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