On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 02:11:19PM -0500, Connor Abbott wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM Konrad Dybcio <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > SMEM allows the OS to retrieve information about the DDR memory.
> > Among that information, is a semi-magic value called 'HBB', or Highest
> > Bank address Bit, which multimedia drivers (for hardware like Adreno
> > and MDSS) must retrieve in order to program the IP blocks correctly.
> >
> > This series introduces an API to retrieve that value, uses it in the
> > aforementioned programming sequences and exposes available DDR
> > frequencies in debugfs (to e.g. pass to aoss_qmp debugfs). More
> > information can be exposed in the future, as needed.
> >
> > Patch 3 should really be merged after 1&2
> 
> No. The HBB value currently returned by the bootloader is *not* always
> the same as what we use currently, because some SoCs (like SM8250)
> with the same DT ship with multiple different DRAM configurations and
> we've been using a sub-optimal value the whole time. After all, that's
> the whole point of using the bootloader value. But patches 1&2 will
> only make the DPU use the bootloader value for HBB, not the GPU. So on
> one of the affected SoCs, it will introduce a mismatch. You can't
> change anything until the GPU side uses the new ubwc config as its
> source of truth.

Which, unfortunately, also means that Iris / Venus must also start using
the UBWC config API beforehand.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

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