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+Core-chat-meeting-2018-02-15
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+09:32 < geertu> Welcome to today's Core Group chat!
+09:32 [Users #periperi]
+09:32 [ geertu] [ kbingham   ] [ marex-cloud] [ neg      ] [ uli___] 
+09:32 [ horms ] [ kbingham[m]] [ morimoto   ] [ pinchartl] [ wsa_  ] 
+09:32 [ jmondi] [ Marex      ] [ mturquette ] [ shimoda  ] 
+09:32 -!- Irssi: #periperi: Total of 14 nicks [0 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 14 normal]
+09:32 < geertu> FTR, Magnus is excused
+09:32 < geertu> Agenda:
+09:32 < geertu> 1. Status Updates
+09:32 < geertu> 2. Discussion Topics
+09:33 < geertu> Topic 1. Status updates
+09:33 < geertu> A) What have we done since last time
+09:33 < geertu> Jacopo submitted initial Salvator-x M3-N support.
+09:33 < geertu> Marek submitted H2 Stout patches, and implemented RPC QSPI and HF
+09:33 < geertu> drivers for U-Boot, incl. a method for easy updating of the bootloader
+09:33 < geertu> using single fitImage payload.
+09:33 < geertu> Shimoda-san submitted rcar-dmac fixes for max_chunk_size and
+09:33 < geertu> rcar_dmac_chan_get_residue() issues.
+09:33 < geertu> Simon posted and merged R8A77980 glue, misc cleanups, and tested
+09:33 < geertu> CPUFreq/Z,Z2 Clock patches on big.LITTLE H3 and M3-W.
+09:33 < geertu> Geert completed the GPIO pass-through prototype, wrote a generic
+09:33 < geertu> vfio-platform reset driver, tried Fabrizio's R-Car Gen2 Watchdog Timer
+09:33 < geertu> work, and extended it to all R-Car Gen2 SoCs and boards.
+09:34 < geertu> EOT
+09:34 < geertu> B) What we plan to do till next time
+09:34 < geertu> Jacopo will address review comments and finalize M3-N upstreaming.
+09:34 < geertu> Marek will submit Stout V2 after addressing feedback, and continue RPC
+09:34 < geertu> work, also on D3/V3M.
+09:34 < geertu> Shimoda-san will discuss a plan to improve the IPMMU driver with
+09:34 < geertu> Magnus-san, and will submit M3-N PFC patches for USB.
+09:34 < geertu> Simon will probably do more DT cleanups (soc node and sorting).
+09:34 < geertu> Geert will run and improve Linux on M3-N Salvator-XS, and revisit
+09:34 < geertu> in-kernel BD9571MWV DDR backup mode.
+09:34 < geertu> EOT
+09:36 < geertu> C) Problems we have currently
+09:36 < geertu> Marek has issues with the slow U-Boot SD/MMC maintainer.
+09:36 < geertu> Geert has issues with watchdog reset on early revisions of R-Car H2 and
+09:36 < geertu> M2-W, and on V2H.
+09:36 < geertu> EOT
+09:36 < geertu> Anything missing?
+09:37 < Marex> morimoto: thank you for the RPC stuff :-)
+09:37 < geertu> About the watchdog issues:
+09:37 < geertu>         - R-Car H2 < ES2.0 and R-Car M2-W < ES3.0 (or < ES2.0?) need
+09:37 < geertu>           secondary cores offlined,
+09:37 < geertu>         - R-Car V2H ES1.1 needs CONFIG_SMP=n.
+09:37 < geertu> Renesas UK doesn't care about these early revisions, but we all seem to have boards with such old SoCs.
+09:38 < geertu> Hence I think we should blacklist them in the WDT driver using soc_device_match()
+09:38 < wsa_> i am a bit confused that Simon took the dts patches already while the issues are still present. Is that intentional?
+09:38 < horms> Good that they have newer hw than us!
+09:38 < morimoto> Marex: my pleasure
+09:38 < geertu> DT is hardware description
+09:38 < horms> wsa_: we think the dt changes are clean but the driver side needs work
+09:38 < horms> yes, it was intentional
+09:38 < wsa_> ok
+09:38 < horms> perhaps we will live to regret the decision
+09:39 < horms> s/we/I/
+09:39 < Marex> morimoto: it really did help , cfr https://github.com/marex/u-boot-sh/commits/test/rpc , which is mostly done now (still need to fix one more cache issue there)
+09:39 < wsa_> just wondering, because if we can't decide on a fix for 4.17, my Lager board could lock up when trying to reboot without PMIC drivers
+09:40 < wsa_> but Geert's proposed fix looks fine to me
+09:40 < horms> ok, so the current renesas-devel has the problem you describe?
+09:40 < wsa_> haven't tried. from my experience, it should have
+09:40 < wsa_> but i need to test obviously
+09:40 < horms> ok, that is not good
+09:40 < morimoto> Marex: looks nice ! Thank you for your help !
+09:40 < geertu> wsa_: And with a blacklist, it would not reboot without PMIC drivers?
+09:40 < horms> please test :)
+09:40 < wsa_> yes
+09:41 < geertu> Given only the DT was accepted, there is no issue.
+09:41 < wsa_> that is why I pushed the watchdog driver back then
+09:41 < geertu> Watchdog driver has to go in last anyway
+09:41 < geertu> v4.17: clocks
+09:41 < geertu> v4.18: mach-shmobile reboot vector
+09:41 < geertu> v4.19: watchdog driver
+09:41 < geertu> v4.17: clocks + DT
+09:42 < Marex> morimoto: sure, convenient method of updating u-boot/atf/etc is coming for 2018.05 or 07 (depends on how fast the maintainers react)
+09:42 < wsa_> wow, this is  a long term plan
+09:42 < horms> ok, so its not until the driver goes in that problems can manifest?
+09:42 < geertu> So we have plenty of time to perfect the blacklist ;-)
+09:42 < geertu> horms: Correct.
+09:42 < horms> ok, this is of course fine by me
+09:44 < geertu> Topic 2. Discussion Topics
+09:45 < geertu> From Shimoda-san:
+09:45 < geertu>   - H3 ES3.0 SiP will have 8GiB memory.
+09:45 < geertu>       - Do we need r8a7795-es2-salvator-x[s].dts?
+09:45 < geertu>   - E3 Ebisu board will have 2GiB memory, but first lot will have 1GiB.
+09:45 < geertu>       - I'd like to support 2GiB board only in upstream.
+09:45 < geertu> EOT
+09:45 < geertu> So both are related to memory size
+09:45 < geertu> There's no need to describe all memory in DT, if U-Boot provides it.
+09:45 < geertu> However, U-Boot now uses DT, so it needs a separate DTS?
+09:45 < Marex> geertu: or we can extract how much RAM the board has from ATF somehow ?
+09:45 < geertu> Or code to populate the memory node based on ES revision?
+09:46 < Marex> geertu: then U-Boot can report it correctly and patch the Linux DT with the correct info
+09:46 < geertu> shimoda: Will E3 be a SiP? Or a board with either 1 or 2 GiB populated?
+09:46 < Marex> geertu: not ES revisions, that may not work if someone mixes and matches boards and CPUs
+09:47 < morimoto> shimoda-san is talking with our boss now
+09:47 < geertu> Marex: We already have that issue, as the H3 SiPs on Salvator-X and H3ULCB are different (different memory size + ???)
+09:47 < Marex> geertu: isnt there some SMC call which can give you the DRAM configuration ?
+09:47 < geertu> Marex: no idea
+09:47 < Marex> geertu: that might be the thing to explore
+09:47 < Marex> geertu: that way we can be always correct IFF the ATF is correct
+09:48 < geertu> Marex: Yes, you want a shared U-Boot binary, while the ATF is still per-SoC
+09:48 < Marex> geertu: I want one u-boot to rule them all !
+09:48 < Marex> geertu: one u-boot binary, with different DT attached to it on per-board basis, that'd be AWESOME
+09:49 < Marex> geertu: but if we can avoid having per-memory-configuration DT for u-boot, that'd be AWESOME too
+09:50 < Marex> geertu: ... before you mention applying DTOs to U-Boot DT, yes, I tried it, no, I don't want to go down that path here ;-)
+09:51 < geertu> At one point, I considered SiP DT bindings and .dtsi
+09:51 < geertu> "[PATCH 0/8] arm64: dts: renesas: Break out R-Car H3 and M3-W SiP"
+09:51 < geertu> https://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg173820.html
+09:51 < shimoda> geertu: sorry for delayed. E3 is not SiP. SDRAM on board
+09:51 < geertu> shimoda: Thanks for checking.
+09:52 < Marex> geertu: or apply DTOs to Linux DT on U-Boot level now ? :)
+09:52 < geertu> shimoda: Will there be other differences in H3 ES3.0 to warrant a new .dts(i) file?
+09:53 < shimoda> geertu: i don't know, i will ask some guy
+09:55 < geertu> shimoda: OK, we will see
+09:57 < shimoda> geertu: hw team is preparing such document. so, after i got it, i will inform you.
+09:57 < Marex> morimoto: one thing which would be real cool in the ATF on Salvator-X would be if there was one of those switches on the board to unlock the RPC HF
+09:57 -!- horms [~horms@83.137.1.222] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds]
+09:58 < Marex> morimoto: this way I won't have to hack the ATF to unlock the access to RPC on H3/M3
+09:58 < Marex> morimoto: it'd also make it convenient for users of the board, just flip a switch, update u-boot from u-boot, reboot, flip the switch back to "locked"
+09:58 < geertu> Marex: IIRC, there's an MD switch to boot from external FLASH. Does that also go through the RPC?
+09:58 < Marex> morimoto: I think I'll prepare some patches for that, maybe renesas ATF tean can integrate them if they like it
+09:59 < geertu> shimoda: Thank you
+09:59 < geertu> Any other topics to discuss?
+09:59 < Marex> geertu: everything goes through RPC afaik
+10:01 < geertu> OK, let's conclude
+10:01 < geertu> Thanks for joining, and have a nice continued day!