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Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:09:08 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 80/80] ARM: dts: bcm2711: Enable the display pipeline
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:22:03AM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 09:38 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 04:07:58PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Hi Nathan,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 03:15:26PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:01:52AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > > Now that all the drivers have been adjusted for it, let's bring in the
> > > > > necessary device tree changes.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The VEC and PV3 are left out for now, since it will require a more specific
> > > > > clock setup.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@raspberrypi.com>
> > > > > Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
> > > > > Tested-by: Hoegeun Kwon <hoegeun.kwon@samsung.com>
> > > > > Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
> > > > 
> > > > Apologies if this has already been reported or have a solution but this
> > > > patch (and presumably series) breaks output to the serial console after
> > > > a certain point during init. On Raspbian, I see systemd startup messages
> > > > then the output just turns into complete garbage. It looks like this
> > > > patch is merged first in linux-next, which is why my bisect fell on the
> > > > DRM merge. I am happy to provide whatever information could be helpful
> > > > for debugging this. I am on the latest version of the firmware
> > > > (currently 26620cc9a63c6cb9965374d509479b4ee2c30241).
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, the miniUART is in the same clock tree than the core
> > > clock and will thus have those kind of issues when the core clock is
> > > changed (which is also something that one should expect when using the
> > > DRM or other drivers).
> > > 
> > > The only real workaround there would be to switch to one of the PL011
> > > UARTs. I guess we can also somehow make the UART react to the core clock
> > > frequency changes, but that's going to require some effort
> > > 
> > > Maxime
> > 
> > Ack, thank you for the reply! There does not really seem to be a whole
> > ton of documentation around using one of the other PL011 UARTs so for
> > now, I will just revert this commit locally.
> 
> Nathan, a less intrusive solution would be to add 'core_freq_min=500' into your
> config.txt.
> 
> Funnily enough core_freq=500 doesn't seem to work in that regard. It might be
> related with what Maxime is commenting.
> 
> Regards,
> Nicolas
> 

Excellent, thank you for the tip, that worked well!

Cheers,
Nathan