[PATCH v5 0/8] Add TH1520 GPU support with power sequencing

[Michal Wilczynski]

On 6/19/25 03:43, Drew Fustini wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:22:06PM +0200, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
>> This patch series introduces support for the Imagination IMG BXM-4-64
>> GPU found on the T-HEAD TH1520 SoC. A key aspect of this support is
>> managing the GPU's complex power-up and power-down sequence, which
>> involves multiple clocks and resets.
>>
>> The TH1520 GPU requires a specific sequence to be followed for its
>> clocks and resets to ensure correct operation. Initial discussions and
>> an earlier version of this series explored managing this via the generic
>> power domain (genpd) framework. However, following further discussions
>> with kernel maintainers [1], the approach has been reworked to utilize
>> the dedicated power sequencing (pwrseq) framework.
>>
>> This revised series now employs a new pwrseq provider driver
>> (pwrseq-thead-gpu.c) specifically for the TH1520 GPU. This driver
>> encapsulates the SoC specific power sequence details. The Imagination
>> GPU driver (pvr_device.c) is updated to act as a consumer of this power
>> sequencer, requesting the "gpu-power" target. The sequencer driver,
>> during its match phase with the GPU device, acquires the necessary clock
>> and reset handles from the GPU device node to perform the full sequence.
>>
>> This approach aligns with the goal of abstracting SoC specific power
>> management details away from generic device drivers and leverages the
>> pwrseq framework as recommended.
>>
>> The series is structured as follows:
>>
>> Patch 1: Introduces the pwrseq-thead-gpu auxiliary driver to manage the
>>          GPU's power-on/off sequence.
>> Patch 2: Adds device tree bindings for the gpu-clkgen reset to the
>>          existing thead,th1520-aon binding.
>> Patch 3: Extends the pm-domains driver to detect the gpu-clkgen reset
>>          and spawn the pwrseq-thead-gpu auxiliary driver.
>> Patch 4: Updates the Imagination DRM driver to utilize the pwrseq
>>          framework for TH1520 GPU power management.
>> Patch 5: Adds the thead,th1520-gpu compatible string to the PowerVR GPU
>>          device tree bindings.
>> Patch 6: Adds the gpu-clkgen reset property to the aon node in the
>>          TH1520 device tree source.
>> Patch 7: Adds the device tree node for the IMG BXM-4-64 GPU and its
>>          required fixed-clock.
>> Patch 8: Enables compilation of the Imagination PowerVR driver on the
>>          RISC-V architecture.
>>
>> This patchset finishes the work started in bigger series [2] by adding
>> all remaining GPU power sequencing piece. After this patchset the GPU
>> probes correctly.
> 
> The powevr probe complains:
> 
> [    1.060383] powervr ffef400000.gpu: Direct firmware load for powervr/rogue_36.52.104.182_v1.fw failed with error -2
> 
> Where is the correct place to get the firmware?

Hi,

Apologies for the late reply, it was a long weekend in Poland and I was
away without access to e-mail.

This is the Imagination repository that hosts the firmware [1].
Admittedly I'm not using the newest firmware blobs available, as per
discussion here [2] I downloaded mine last year so haven't tested the
new ones yet.

For my own testing, I  embed the firmware directly into the kernel to
avoid issues with the initramfs. If you're compiling your own kernel,
you can do this with the following configuration options:

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="powervr/rogue_36.52.104.182_v1.fw"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/home/local_user"

[1] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/linux-firmware/-/tree/powervr/powervr?ref_type=heads
[2] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/linux-firmware/-/issues/2#note_2642740

> 
> Thanks,
> Drew
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski at samsung.com>