Hikey960 debian: /proc/device-tree does not show mali

Products Support HiKey 960
#1

I installed Debian on HiKey 960 board as described here

After that I tried to Enable OpenCL support on Debian as described below

But the following test command does not show mali in the device tree

sudo dtc -I fs /proc/device-tree | grep mali

Documentation says - In case mali gpu node isn’t present then either check

  1. if you are using latest edk2/UEFI build image
  2. update devicetree with appropriate mali gpu node.

How to do items #1 and #2 above?

Enabling interrupts for SDIO interface on Hikey960
#2

Please fetch updated hi3660-hikey960.dtb with gpu node and edit grub menu to use this devicetree as:
devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb

BTW, hopefully once this PR is merged we will have this change included in next fip.bin image snapshot.

#3

Ok, that is what I did to make it work

  1. run the following on your dev x86 box
git clone https://git.linaro.org/people/manivannan.sadhasivam/hikey.git/
  1. install required packages
apt-get install -y libssl-dev bc flex bison \
gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu g++-aarch64-linux-gnu
  1. Build hikey
cd hikey
make defconfig ARCH=arm64
make dtbs ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-

# you should get hi3660-hikey960.dtb file
ls -la arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660-hikey960.dtb

  1. copy arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660-hikey960.dtb to HiKey960

  2. ssh to HiKey960

  3. put new hi3660-hikey960.dtb to /boot/ and to /usr/lib/linux-image-4.19.5-hikey/hisilicon/

sudo cp hi3660-hikey960.dtb /boot/
sudo cp hi3660-hikey960.dtb /usr/lib/linux-image-4.19.5-hikey/hisilicon/

  1. HDMI port does not work if you use HiKey960 + Debian. (only ssh works)
    So, we can not interact with grub at boot time and we need to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and add devicetree line

  2. Edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

sudo chmod 644 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
sudo vi /boot/grub/grub.cfg

# Add "devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb" before "echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.5-hikey ...'"
# in all menuentry blocks
# You should get the following

	...
	devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb
	echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.5-hikey ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.5-hikey root=UUID=51edd3ac-2b58-4d25-b9af-a64969e4bd6b ro
	...
  1. Save /boot/grub/grub.cfg and reboot
sudo reboot
  1. ssh to the device in 1 min and check if device tree has mali
sudo apt install device-tree-compiler

sudo dtc -I fs /proc/device-tree | grep mali

#you should see
	mali@E82C0000 {
		compatible = "arm,malit6xx", "arm,mali-midgard";
#4

How to allow linaro user to use OpenCL device? Currently my OpenCL program works only with sudo

#5

Nah. You can edit grub config via serial also!

#6

Not sure how to do it. I have just the board and usb A-to-C cable

#7

Oops. Sorry, I thought that you have access to serial console. I’d recommend using any of the following mezzanine boards to have serial console access:

Thanks,
Mani