Re: [PATCH v30 0/7] Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys1) support for mt8195

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 24/03/23 00:25, Chun-Kuang Hu ha scritto:
> Hi, Angelo:
> 
> AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> 於
> 2023年3月23日 週四 下午4:58寫道：
>>
>> Il 21/03/23 13:18, Nancy.Lin ha scritto:
>>> The hardware path of vdosys1 with DPTx output need to go through by several modules, such as, OVL_ADAPTOR and MERGE.
>>>
>>> Add DRM and these modules support by the patches below:
>>>
>>
>> I've tested v30 again on MT8173, MT8192 and MT8195 based Chromebooks.
>> Green light from me.
> 
> I'm curious about how you build code and test on Chromebooks. Do you
> build in cros environment or pure linux
> (https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/mediatek/acer-chromebook-r13).
> I've a MT8183 based Chromebook (HP 11a) and I've tried to run a
> upstream kernel on it. cros is too heavy for me and I doubt I could
> use it. I've tried the pure linux and could boot up with console, but
> display does not work. If you use the pure linux environment, could
> you share how it works?
> 

I haven't tested MT8183 (I don't actually have any 8183 machine in my hands)... but
yes, I can share my test environment.

I have one MicroSD that I use either in the MicroSD slot of the target machine, or
in a USB reader; this *single* system is what I boot on *all* Chromebooks that I
have: one kernel, multiple devicetrees, same Debian-based userspace.

What we have to prepare this bootable media can be found at [1], but beware that
it currently uses an outdated kernel, so, what I have locally is a symlink to my
kernel tree.
You can change/add/remove the devicetree blobs that will get added to the image
by modifying `chromebook-setup.sh`; before tampering with kernel tree symlink,
please run that script for the first time, as it will download a cross-compiler,
a kernel tree (that you will replace for sure) and the (very old) Debian rootfs
that you can update with `apt-get dist-upgrade` after booting the Chromebook.

If you want to check about possible kernel configuration differences, what I use
is at [2], so that you can compare.

[1]: https://gitlab.collabora.com/google/chromebooks/-/tree/mtk-av1
[2]: 
https://gitlab.collabora.com/google/chromeos-kernel/-/blob/mt8195-tracking-master-rolling/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig

Regards,
Angelo