mediatek: fix pwn fan settings for sinovoip bpi-r3
authorMikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com>
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:17:07 +0000 (03:17 +0300)
committerRobert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:04:14 +0000 (22:04 +0100)
commit3467ea905b40f0df87700a15b716b1f5a4efc955
tree5978a7d447a50059c5309b925b303d051496e05d
parent2784f78c6c22c0731ef551e4fcd42295f08a07a5
mediatek: fix pwn fan settings for sinovoip bpi-r3

Popular bpi-r3 pwm fans like this one

  https://www.amazon.com/youyeetoo-Barebone-Fan-BPI-R3-Integrated/dp/B0CCCTY8PS

will not work properly with current openwrt-23.05/24.10 firmware.
Trying different pwm setting

  echo $value > /sys/devices/platform/pwm-fan/hwmon/hwmon1/pwm1

I found:

  pwm1 value     fan rotation speed   cpu temperature     notes
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
    0            maximal              31.5 Celsius        too noisy
   40            optimal              35.2 Celsius        no noise hearable
   95            minimal
   above 95      does not rotate      55.5 Celsius
  -----------------------------------------------------------------

At the moment we have following cooling levels:

  cooling-levels = <255 96 0>;

for cpu-active-high, cpu-active-medium and cpu-active-low modes correspondingly.
Thus only cpu-active-high and cpu-active-low are usable. I think this is wrong.

This patch fixes cpu-active-medium settings for bpi-r3 board.

PS: I know, the patch is not ideal as it can break pwm fan for some users.
    There are some peoples that use handmade cooling solutions, but:
      * discussed cooler is the only 'official' pwm cooler for bpi-r3
        available on the market.
      * most peoples will use passive cooling available on the market or
        the discussed cooler.
      * the pwm-fan dts section was added before the official cooler
        appears on the market.
    Thus it should not be a lot of harm from this fix.

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16974
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
target/linux/mediatek/patches-5.15/196-dts-mt7986a-bpi-r3-pwm-fan-cooling-levels.patch [new file with mode: 0644]