Trying to run AMD E9260 (Polaris 11) on NXP LS1012A-RDB

[Bas Vermeulen]

I've since replaced the LS1012ARDB with a LS1046ARDB, and this works out of
the box.
The LS1012ARDB does not have an SMMU, which handles hardware coherency on
ARM.
So amdgpu won't work on any ARM without an SMMU.

Bas Vermeulen

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:38 PM Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
wrote:

> Am 10.01.19 um 14:31 schrieb Bas Vermeulen:
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:59 AM Christian König <
> ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The PCI Express controller as instantiated on this chip does not support
>> hardware coherency. All incoming PCI Express transactions are made non
>> IO-coherent.
>>
>> Would AMDGPU still work with that PCI Express controller, or is this a
>> show-stopper?
>>
>>
>> I'm really wondering what this comment in the documentation means.
>>
>> As far as I know PCIe doesn't support cache coherency in the downstream
>> and supporting it in the up stream is a must have.
>>
> So what exactly is meant here with IO-coherent?
>>
>
> I believe IO Coherent means that when PCIe writes something to CPU memory,
> the caches are flushed or updated
> (or in this case they aren't). I found
> https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/extended-system-coherency---part-1---cache-coherency-fundamentals
>
> with this explanation.
>
>
> Yeah, but as I said this upstream memory coherency is mandatory for PCIe.
>
> When a controller doesn't have that it can't call itself a PCIe
> controller. The spec is pretty clear about that :)
>
> And to answer the original question: Yes, that would be a totally
> show-stopper.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bas Vermeulen
>
>
>
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