Hi! I'm working with a STM32MP157c-eval board. I found out that in the Starter Package image the etnaviv module is blacklisted. Isn't it the GPU driver? Why is the galcore module loaded as out-of-tree module instead?

[Lmoio.1]

Moreover, when I play the demo video, core usage reaches up to 70%, so is the GPU really working?

The blacklist file:

root@stm32mp1:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
 blacklist etnaviv

Dmesg:

root@stm32mp1:~# dmesg | grep galcore
[ 19.326759] galcore: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.

Lsmod:

root@stm32mp1:~# lsmod | grep galcore
galcore 319488 6

Core usage while playing video:

10:56:40 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
10:56:41 all 78.92 0.00 12.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.65
10:56:41 0 82.18 0.00 16.83 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.99
10:56:41 1 75.00 0.00 7.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.86

Thanks

[KKHOL]

Hello,

Concerning your question related to STM32MP157c - ST is allowed to deliver only the Firmware/Driver from GPU Provider .

Regards

Kamel

[Lmoio.1]

Hello,

sorry I don't understand how this is related to my question...

[Olivier GALLIEN]

Hi @Lmoio.1​ ,

Galcore is the only GPU driver allowed to be delivered by Vivante on MP1 platform.

GPU is not used during video decode use case which is 100% handle by main CPU.

GPU is only used for graphic operation such as flip, resize, filter ...

Olivier

[Lmoio.1]

Hi @Community member​ ,

so what's the difference between galcore.ko and etnaviv.ko?

Thanks