Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] riscv: dts: Add Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC PCIe cards

[Drew Fustini <fustini@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 10:20:43AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:A
> On 07/10/2025 06:21, Drew Fustini wrote:
> > From: Drew Fustini <dfustini@oss.tenstorrent.com>
> > 
> > Add device tree source describing the Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC and the
> > Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe cards. There are no differences between
> > the P100 and P150 cards from the perspective of an OS kernel like Linux
> > running on the X280 cores.
> > 
> > Link: https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-isa-documentation/blob/main/BlackholeA0/
> > Signed-off-by: Drew Fustini <dfustini@oss.tenstorrent.com>

Thanks for the review.

[snip]
> > +	cpus {
> > +		#address-cells = <0x1>;
> > +		#size-cells = <0x0>;
> 
> Cells are not hex. Please use decimal everywhere.

Okay, I'll change.

> > +		timebase-frequency = <50000000>;
> > +
> > +		cpu@0 {
> > +			compatible = "sifive,x280", "sifive,rocket0", "riscv";
> > +			device_type = "cpu";
> > +			reg = <0>;
> > +			mmu-type = "riscv,sv57";
> > +			riscv,isa-base = "rv64i";
> > +			riscv,isa-extensions = "i", "m", "a", "f", "d", "c", "v", "zicsr",
> > +					       "zifencei", "zfh", "zba", "zbb", "sscofpmf";
> 
> Blank line

Ack.

[snip]
> 
> You should have at least serial or any other interface, otherwise I
> don't see how this can be used at this stage.

The goal for upstreaming this minimal device tree is to make it possible
to boot mainline kernel builds. I attended the KernelCI workshop after
ELC-EU and learned there are not many RISC-V boards doing boot tests. We
already have Blackhole cards in servers that could be used for CI, so my
goal is to enable mainline to boot on Blackhole.

I had an explanation about the serial console in the cover letter but
I'll change the commit message in this patch for the next rev:

-------------------------------------------------
From: Drew Fustini <dfustini@oss.tenstorrent.com>

Add device tree source describing the Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC and the
Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe cards. There are no differences between
the P100 and P150 cards from the perspective of an OS kernel like Linux
running on the X280 cores.

There is a virtual UART implemented in OpenSBI firmware that allows a
console program on the PCIe host to communicate through shared memory
with Linux running on the Blackhole card. CONFIG_HVC_RISCV_SBI needs to
be enabled. The boot script on the host adds 'console=hvc0' so that the
full boot output appears in the console program on the host. 

Link: https://github.com/tenstorrent/opensbi/
Link: https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-bh-linux
Signed-off-by: Drew Fustini <dfustini@oss.tenstorrent.com>
-------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
Drew