Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net> writes:

> Since release of the new BCM2835 PM driver there has been several reports
> of V3D probing issues. This is caused by timeouts during powering-up the
> GRAFX PM domain:
>
>   bcm2835-power: Timeout waiting for grafx power OK
>
> I was able to reproduce this reliable on my Raspberry Pi 3B+ after setting
> force_turbo=1 in the firmware configuration. Since there are no issues
> using the firmware PM driver with the same setup, there must be an issue
> in the BCM2835 PM driver.
>
> Unfortunately there hasn't been much progress in identifying the root cause
> since June (mostly in the lack of documentation), so i decided to switch
> back until the issue in the BCM2835 PM driver is fixed.
>
> Link: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3046
> Fixes: e1dc2b2e1bef (" ARM: bcm283x: Switch V3D over to using the PM driver instead of firmware.")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>

Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>

I wish someone with firmware source had the time to look into why using
open source drivers to drive this hardware was failing, but I don't have
that time or code any more.