linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] usb: xhci: Load Raspberry Pi 4 VL805's firmware

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Message-ID: <bf73b73e-c251-7ac8-c245-a3b3d2be2420@denx.de>
Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:53:30 +0200
From:   Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
To:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>, mbrugger@...e.com,
        u-boot@...ts.denx.de, bmeng.cn@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     sjg@...omium.org, m.szyprowski@...sung.com, s.nawrocki@...sung.com,
        mark.kettenis@...all.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] usb: xhci: Load Raspberry Pi 4 VL805's firmware

On 6/1/20 12:47 PM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 18:26 +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
>> Newer revisions of the RPi4 need their xHCI chip, VL805, firmware to be
>> loaded explicitly. Earlier versions didn't need that as they where using
>> an EEPROM for that purpose. This series takes care of setting up the
>> relevant infrastructure and run the firmware loading routine at the
>> right moment.
>>
>> Note that this builds on top of Sylwester Nawrocki's "USB host support
>> for Raspberry Pi 4 board" series.
>>
>> ---
> 
> Please don't forget about this series. The new 8GB RPi4 contains this HW design
> change and USB will not work without it. See this discussion on the downstream
> kernel github, where other OS/bootloaders are hitting the issue:
> 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1402
> 
> Otherwise, the Linux version of this is already in linux-next:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c?h=next-20200529&id=c65822fef4adc0ba40c37a47337376ce75f7a7bc

We're already at 2020.07-rc3 , so unless this is a bugfix (does not look
that way), this will have to wait for next release cycle. Also, it seems
there was a lengthy ongoing discussion, is that already sorted out ?