mediatek: fix pwn fan settings for sinovoip bpi-r3 (v3)
authorMikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com>
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:29:06 +0000 (01:29 +0300)
committerRobert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:33:44 +0000 (10:33 +0100)
commit095151b2354752be6b4be81e6b22b65227c59746
tree155ee46fdf16fcade28639789482ea14d35ca62d
parentdef7548867741206f6788d55e58d7417d859e106
mediatek: fix pwn fan settings for sinovoip bpi-r3 (v3)

Popular cheap PWM fans for this machine, like the ones coming in
heatsink+fan combos will not work properly at the currently defined
medium speed. Trying different pwm setting using a command

  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
  -----------------------------------------------------------------

Current cooling levels are:

cooling-levels = <255 96 0>;

Thus only cpu-active-high and cpu-active-low modes are usable.
This patch fixes cpu-active-medium settings for bpi-r3 board.

This patch may not be enough. Users may wants to tweak their thermal_zone0
trip points, thus tuning fan rotation speed depending on cpu temperature.
That can be done on the base of the following example:

  === example =========
  # cpu temperature below 25 Celsius degrees, no rotation
  echo 25000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_4_temp
  # cpu temperature in [25..32] Celsius degrees, normal rotation speed
  echo 32000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_3_temp
  # cpu temperature above 50 Celsius degrees, max rotation speed
  echo 50000 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/trip_point_2_temp
  =====================

Changes v2:
* put patch to a proper directory
* updated patch description
* tested with latest openwrt based on linux-6.6

Changes v3:
* use upstream linux patch
* update patch description

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17130
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
target/linux/mediatek/patches-6.12/061-v6.19-arm64-dts-mediatek-mt7986-bpi-r3-Change-fan-PWM-valu.patch [new file with mode: 0644]