linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] RK3576 thermal sensor support, including OTP trim adjustments

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Message-ID: <aHgHxR1_Gzu8Dwbm@mai.linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:12:53 +0200
From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@...labora.com>
Cc: Alexey Charkov <alchark@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Jonas Karlman <jonas@...boo.se>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>,
	kernel@...labora.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ye Zhang <ye.zhang@...k-chips.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] RK3576 thermal sensor support, including OTP trim
 adjustments

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 02:32:36PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
> This series adds support for the RK3576's thermal sensor.
> 
> The sensor has six channels, providing measurements for the package
> temperature, the temperature of the big cores, the temperature of the
> little cores, and the GPU, NPU and DDR controller.
> 
> In addition to adding support for the sensor itself, the series also
> adds support for reading thermal trim values out of the device tree.
> Most of this functionality is not specific to this SoC, but needed to be
> implemented to make the sensors a little more accurate in order to
> investigate whether the TRM swapped GPU and DDR or downstream swapped
> GPU and DDR in terms of channel IDs, as downstream disagrees with what's
> in the TRM, and the difference is so small and hard to pin down with
> testing that the constant offset between the two sensors was a little
> annoying for me to deal with.
> 
> I ended up going with the channel assignment the TRM lists, as I see the
> DDR sensor get a larger deviation from baseline temperatures during memory
> stress tests (stress-ng --memrate 8 --memrate-flush) than what the TRM
> claims is the GPU sensor but downstream claims is the DDR sensor. Input
> from Rockchip engineers on whether the TRM is right or wrong welcome.
> 
> The trim functionality is only used by RK3576 at the moment. Code to
> handle other SoCs can rely on the shared otp reading and perhaps even
> the IP revision specific function, but may need its own IP revision
> specific functions added as well. Absent trim functionality in other
> SoCs should not interfere with the modified common code paths.
> 
> Patch 1 is a cleanup patch for the rockchip thermal driver, where a
> function was confusingly named.
> 
> Patch 2 adds the RK3576 compatible to the bindings.
> 
> Patch 3 adds support for this SoC's thermal chip to the driver. It is a
> port of the downstream commit adding support for this.
> 
> Patch 4 adds some documentation for imminent additional functionality to
> the binding, namely the trim value stuff.
> 
> Patch 5 adds support for reading these OTP values in the
> rockchip_thermal driver, and makes use of them. The code is mostly new
> upstream code written by me, using downstream code as reference.

Replaced previously applied version V5 with this V6 patches 1-5

Thanks

  -- Daniel

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