Re: Status of the Panfrost driver

---> that phone project is also like solely mario's pet

I should be mad / crazy. I'm spending a lot of money trying to follow my
dream to build a modular phone based on FreeBSD and I don't have enough
money to buy the food. I'm not mentally sane.
But my passion is so big. I really want someone to be able to feel it.
While on the road I found only a couple of good boys who were helping me
steadily. I really appreciate how much they are helping me with my project.
But yes,we are only a few numbers and we can't do the deep job needed to
create some kind of stable and mature code (I'm not able to write a single
piece of code,but I do what I can do).

On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ---> it somehow works on rk3999 and rk356x boards but not great. no iommu
> + memory fragmentation causes contigmalloc to fail
>
> The cheriBSD code has iommu and / or memory fragmentation ?
>
> ----> and the only fix is a reboot
>
> What really makes the reboot ? Why Does It Work ? The same effect of a
> rebooting can't be simulated writing a proper piece of code ? something
> like the reset / reorganization of what's inside the memory that got
> corrupted ?
>
> Mario.
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ---> 14.2-RELEASE with drm-subtree imported from cheribsd (
>> https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheribsd)
>>
>> Plus : soon 14.2-RELEASE will go to EOL and we don't have a future for
>> the 14.3 and even more importantly,for the 15.0 branch.
>>
>> Mario.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM titus <titus@edc.ro> wrote:
>>
>>> it somehow works on rk3999 and rk356x boards but not great. no iommu +
>>> memory fragmentation causes contigmalloc to fail and the only fix is a
>>> reboot
>>> [image: logo.og.png]
>>>
>>> How to run FreeBSD on new boards built on Rockchip 35XX..
>>> <https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/how-to-run-freebsd-on-new-boards-built-on-rockchip-35xx.88430/post-707035>
>>> forums.freebsd.org
>>> <https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/how-to-run-freebsd-on-new-boards-built-on-rockchip-35xx.88430/post-707035>
>>>
>>> <https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/how-to-run-freebsd-on-new-boards-built-on-rockchip-35xx.88430/post-707035>
>>>
>>> kernel-drm-cheri-src.tgz
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEjfP_ESvWectlhvfc09t1e8NkSZUXKH/view?usp=sharing>
>>> drive.google.com
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEjfP_ESvWectlhvfc09t1e8NkSZUXKH/view?usp=sharing>
>>> [image: drive_2020q4_32dp.png]
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEjfP_ESvWectlhvfc09t1e8NkSZUXKH/view?usp=sharing>
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEjfP_ESvWectlhvfc09t1e8NkSZUXKH/view?usp=sharing>
>>> 14.2-RELEASE with drm-subtree imported from cheribsd (
>>> https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheribsd)
>>>
>>> On 1 Aug 2025, at 19:52, Michał Kruszewski <mkru@protonmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what is the status of the Panfrost driver?
>>>
>>> A few years ago there was a request to add it to the source tree,
>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34370.
>>> However, it was closed with a very short summary "Out of tree drivers
>>> exists for panfrost so include it."
>>> No rationale for the decision.
>>> How do comitters decided whether some driver shall be merged into the
>>> source tree or not.
>>>
>>> Does anyone use the out of tree drvier?
>>> What is your experience, is it stable?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Michał Kruszewski
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> secure email.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Mario.