During sending the base address of the slots to the VideoCore firmware via mailbox property, issues could happened on the ARM and on the VideoCore side. So better separate the error handling in order to provide more details. This should help to narrow down the possible cause. Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> --- .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c index 4a57ff760106..2ae1d3f5d500 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c @@ -546,9 +546,15 @@ int vchiq_platform_init(struct platform_device *pdev, struct vchiq_state *state) channelbase = slot_phys; err = rpi_firmware_property(fw, RPI_FIRMWARE_VCHIQ_INIT, &channelbase, sizeof(channelbase)); - if (err || channelbase) { - dev_err(dev, "failed to set channelbase\n"); - return err ? : -ENXIO; + if (err) { + dev_err(dev, "failed to send firmware property: %d\n", err); + return err; + } + + if (channelbase) { + dev_err(dev, "failed to set channelbase (response: %x)\n", + channelbase); + return -ENXIO; } vchiq_log_info(vchiq_arm_log_level, "vchiq_init - done (slots %pK, phys %pad)", -- 2.34.1