On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:10 AM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM Geert Uytterhoeven > <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Maxime, > > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 5:18 PM Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 01:50:09PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > Using the Imagination Technologies PowerVR Series 6 GPU requires a > > > > proprietary firmware image, which is currently only available for Texas > > > > Instruments K3 AM62x SoCs. Hence add a dependency on ARCH_K3, to > > > > prevent asking the user about this driver when configuring a kernel > > > > without Texas Instruments K3 Multicore SoC support. > > > > > > This wasn't making sense the first time you sent it, and now that commit > > > log is just plain wrong. We have firmwares for the G6110, GX6250, > > > GX6650, BXE-4-32, and BXS-4-64 models, which can be found on (at least) > > > Renesas, Mediatek, Rockchip, TI and StarFive, so across three > > > > I am so happy to be proven wrong! > > Yeah, GX6650 is found on e.g. R-Car H3, and GX6250 on e.g. R-Car M3-W. > > > > > architectures and 5 platforms. In two months. > > > > That sounds like great progress, thanks a lot! > > > Geert, > > > Where can I find these firmwares? Linux-firmware[1] seems to lack all > > but the original K3 AM62x one. > > I think PowerVR has a repo [1], but the last time I checked it, the > BVNC for the firmware didn't match what was necessary for the GX6250 > on the RZ/G2M. I can't remember what the corresponding R-Car3 model > is. I haven't tried recently because I was told more documentation > for firmware porting would be delayed until everything was pushed into > the kernel and Mesa. Maybe there is a better repo and/or newer > firmware somewhere else. > I should have doubled checked the repo contents before I sent my last e-mail , but it appears the firmware [2] for the RZ/G2M, might be present now. I don't know if there are driver updates necessary. I checked my e-mails, but I didn't see any notification, or I would have tried it earlier. Either way, thank you Frank for adding it. I'll try to test when I have some time. > adam > > [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/frankbinns/linux-firmware/-/tree/powervr/powervr?ref_type=heads [2] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/frankbinns/linux-firmware/-/commit/fecb3caebf29f37221fe0a20236e5e1415d39d0b > > > > > > Thanks again! > > > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ > > > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > > > Geert > > > > -- > > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > > -- Linus Torvalds
