On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > It sounds like a lack of testing is your main concern. > > > > How can I help here? What H/W do I need to be able to fully test this? > > The changes here need to be tested on affected platforms (ARMv7 and > ARMv8), when built as a modules on some types of regular distros (e.g. > Arch, Ubuntu). From each of such boot I would be happy to see number of > new dmesg warnings/errors plus number of probe deferrals. > > Since the drivers could be switched to modules (and some distros might > do it), they might be hit by surprise regressions in boot performance > due to probe deferrals. This should be also checked on these platforms. > Geert pointed out before that clocks in many cases are not optional - > driver needs them and will wait defer. > > Assuming of course that boot succeeds. Minor differences in boot speed > should not be a problem, I think, because distro anyway chosen > all-module approach so it accepts the penalty. Do you have any suggestions in terms of devboards? -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
