On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 5:58 AM Frank Binns <Frank.Binns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > Sorry for not responding sooner. I've recently just returned from paternity > leave, so just catching up on everything. Congratulations! > > On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 11:22 -0600, Adam Ford wrote: > > 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. > > > > You may have noticed from one of Matt's emails that we now have a set of repos > (linux, linux-firmware and Mesa) in our own area on freedesktop.org GitLab: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/ > > We'll be using this as a staging area for work that isn't ready to be upstreamed > yet (including firmware binaries). > I tried to play with these a little, but it seems like there is still a fair amount of work to be done on the 6XT series. I tried to add the device tree support for several Renesas boards, but the series was NAK'd due to an inability to test it. > > > > 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 > > > > This is now the place to get the firmware for devices that aren't yet supported > upstream: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/linux-firmware/-/commits/powervr/?ref_type=HEADS > I've been following several of these repos and checking for software updates in both the Firmware, driver and userspace layers. > With the firmware for the Renesas variant of GX6250 being found in this commit: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/linux-firmware/-/commit/fecb3caebf29f37221fe0a20236e5e1415d39d0b > If your group thinks they have stuff they want tested, I am willing to test them on the two platforms I have if I am CC'd on anything. Thanks for the work your group has done so far. It'll be nice to see the work. adam > Thanks > Frank > > > > > > > > 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
