On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 3:44 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2021-07-06 14:33, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:29:07PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> >
> > I can't find much information about the original Kryo core at all...
>
> I have similar issues with my QDF2400. The UART, RTC and DMA controllers
> are all screaming at me. I'm confident that the UART doesn't do any
> DMA (it is handled by the SBSA driver), but the DMA controllers are
> probably doing what it says on the tin.
But that's a server chip, surely the DMA controller is fully cache coherent
as required by SBSA? (please?)
Maybe just a misannotation on the device node?
> Do we know whether Falkor and Kryo share any part of their design?
I'm fairly sure the Snapdragon 821 / msm8996 is not cache coherent.
I can only speculate on how much got reused between the two, but
as Falkor was released only after they had already given up on
the full-custom Kryo core, it's plausible that it incorporates bits from
that one. In particular the cache controller is probably easy to reuse
even if the rest of it was a new design.
Arnd
