[Nouveau] [RFC 00/16] drm/nouveau: initial support for GK20A (Tegra K1)

[Alexandre Courbot]

Hello everyone,

GK20A is the Kepler-based GPU used in the upcoming Tegra K1 chips. The following
patches perform architectural changes to Nouveau that are necessary to support
non-PCI GPUs and add initial support for GK20A. Although the support is still
very basic and more user-space changes will be needed to make the full graphics
stack run on top of it, we were able to successfully open channels and run
simple pushbuffers with libdrm (more testing including rendering is in progress
as we get more familiar with Nouveau's user-space interface).

This work should be considered as a RFC and a proof-of-concept for driving
future Tegra GPUs with Nouveau. Some design choices need to be discussed and
quite a few inelegant shortcuts were purposely taken to minimize the size of
this first set. Or said otherwise, apart from the changes that add support for
non-PCI GPUs, remarkably little code needs to be added to get GK20A to a point
where it is actually running. This is very encouraging, and it will be
interesting to keep improving this support and see where this gets us.

The first part of this series (patches 01/09) adds support for platform devices
to Nouveau. Nouveau currently only supports PCI devices, and GK20A uses the
platform bus and Device Tree. So the first step towards GK20A support is to
abstract the PCI functions used by Nouveau (mainly resources range querying and
page mapping functions) and add platform device probing functions. For most of
the existing chips, platform device support does not make any sense, so only the
subdev and engine drivers actually used by GK20A were updated to use these
abstractions. If, for consistency reasons, it is deemed preferable to use them
everywhere in the driver, we will do it in the next revision of this series.

This part can be considered independently from the actual GK20A support, and I
believe it would make sense to discuss what needs to be improved and drive it to
merge separately, as the remainder of the series will likely require more work.

The second part (10/14) updates existing subdev/engine drivers to support GK20A,
and adds a very simple memory driver that simulates dedicated video memory by
allocating a large system memory chunk at boot time. This is clearly sub-optimal
and should not be merged, but allowed us to quickly bring GK20A up with Nouveau.
Other drivers changes are fairly small, and are here to handle the difference in
number of engines and units compared to desktop Kepler as well as to perform a
few things usually done by the video BIOS (which Tegra does not feature).

Finally, support for probing GK20A is added in the last 2 patches. It should be
noted that contrary to what Nouveau currently expects, GK20A does not embed any
display hardware (that part being handled by tegradrm). So this driver should
really be only used through DRM render-nodes and collaborate with the display
driver using PRIME. I have not yet figured out how to turn GK20A’s instantiation
of Nouveau into a render-node only driver without breaking support for existing
desktop GPUs, and consequently the driver spawns a /dev/dri/cardX node which we
should try to get rid of.

I guess my email address might surprise some of you, so let me anticipate some
questions you might have. :P Yes, this work is endorsed by NVIDIA. Several other
NVIDIAns (CC'd), including core GPU experts, have provided significant technical
guidance and will continue their involvement. Special thanks go to Terje
Bergstrom and Ken Adams for their invaluable GPU expertise, and Thierry Reding
(at FOSDEM this weekend) for help with debugging and user-space testing.

Let me also stress that although very exciting, this effort is still
experimental, so I would like to make sure that nobody makes excessive
expectations based on these few patches. The scope of this work is strictly
limited to Tegra (although given the similarities desktop GPU support will
certainly benefit from it indirectly), and we do not have any plan to work on
user-space support. So do not uninstall that proprietary driver just yet. ;)

With this being clarified, we are looking forward to getting your feedback and
working with you guys to bring and improve Tegra K1 support into Nouveau! :)

Alexandre Courbot (16):
  drm/nouveau: handle -EACCES runtime PM return code
  drm/nouveau: basic support for platform devices
  drm/nouveau: add platform device probing function
  drm/nouveau/fifo: support platform devices
  drm/nouveau/bar: support platform devices
  drm/nouveau/bar: only ioremap BAR3 if it exists
  drm/nouveau/bar/nvc0: support chips without BAR3
  drm/nouveau/mc: support platform devices
  drm/nouveau/fb: support platform devices
  drm/nouveau/timer: skip calibration on GK20A
  drm/nouveau/fifo: allocate usermem as needed
  drm/nouveau/fifo: add GK20A support
  drm/nouveau/ibus: add GK20A support
  drm/nouveau/fb: add GK20A support
  drm/nouveau: support GK20A in nouveau_accel_init()
  drm/nouveau: support for probing GK20A

 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Makefile                   |   4 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/device/base.c  |  92 +++++++++++++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/device/nve0.c  |  20 ++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/fifo/base.c    |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/fifo/nve0.c    |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/fifo/nve0.h    |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/fifo/nvea.c    |  27 +++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/core/device.h |  27 +++++
 .../gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/engine/device.h   |  10 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/engine/fifo.h |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/fb.h   |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/ibus.h |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/mc.h   |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/os.h                  |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bar/base.c     |   7 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bar/nv50.c     |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bar/nvc0.c     | 116 +++++++++++----------
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/nvc0.c      |   9 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/nvea.c      |  28 +++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/priv.h      |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/ramnvea.c   |  67 ++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/ibus/nvea.c    | 108 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/base.c      |  43 +++++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/timer/nv04.c   |  19 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/crtc.c            |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_abi16.c            |  13 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c               |  22 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c          |   3 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c              |  86 ++++++++++++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sysfs.c            |   8 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c              |  31 +++---
 32 files changed, 622 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/fifo/nvea.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/nvea.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/ramnvea.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/ibus/nvea.c

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