vanilla kernel 5.15 and fancontrol

[alchemist]

Hi!

 

I am trying the vanilla 5.15 kernel which has support for helios64.

The system is booting, disks, MMC and network are working.

 

But fancontrol fails.

It seems the /sys entries have changed and the udev rules are not working.

 

I've tried to understand the wiki page in order to adapt the udev rules and fancontrol config file but I am a little bit lost.

Is there updated versions of those config files?

 

Kind regards,

Xavier Miller.

 

[Werner]

6 hours ago, alchemist said:

vanilla

If you are not using Armbian kernel why do you ask here?

Anyway try Armbian kernel and check if the necessary sys nodes are there.

[alchemist]

Hi,

 

I thought this forum did support on the Helios{4,64} regardless of the OS since Kobol is now closed.

More, the issues I encounter testing the Armbian patches can be helpful for the future Armbian releases (I had the eMMC issues long time before many Armbian users were impacted with the Buster update).

I did tried to apply the Armbian patches for kernel 5.15, but they fail because Helios4 and 64 are now mainlined.

 

But not problem, I will try to fix it by myself, and report back the solution here. I have the skills to do it.

BTW I have the same issue with vanilla kernel 5.15 and Helios4. I will test it first on the helios4 because it's not used anymore.

 

Kind regards,

Xavier Miller

[BipBip1981]

Hello,

My workaround or patch, maybe it bad, sad or unclear but it's KISS and seem to work !

Bye

 

root@helios64:~# cat /etc/fancontrol

# Helios64 PWM Fan Control Configuration
# Temp source : /dev/thermal-cpu
INTERVAL=10
#FCTEMPS=/dev/fan-p6/pwm1=/dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input /dev/fan-p7/pwm1=/dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input
FCTEMPS=/dev/fan-p6/pwm1=/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp /dev/fan-p7/pwm1=/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
MINTEMP=/dev/fan-p6/pwm1=40 /dev/fan-p7/pwm1=40
MAXTEMP=/dev/fan-p6/pwm1=110 /dev/fan-p7/pwm1=110
MINSTART=/dev/fan-p6/pwm1=60 /dev/fan-p7/pwm1=60
MINSTOP=/dev/fan-p6/pwm1=40 /dev/fan-p7/pwm1=40
MINPWM=20

[alchemist]

Hi!

 

seems the udev rule needs to be rewritten too. I will look at that later...

 

EDIT: @BipBip1981 do you really run kernel 5.15 or is your workaround for 5.10?

 

[allen--smithee]

Hi,

I was thinking of something else...(I thought you were taking the Board probe values as a reference value but which is not the case)

 

But I highly recommend MAXTEMP = / dev / fan-p6 / pwm1 = 85 / dev / fan-p7 / pwm1 = 85 and MAXPWD=140 with the original thermal pad.

 

Personally my helios has a powerful thermal pad, this allows it to be fanless (which is not the case because I always have a MAXPWM = 50 for ventilation in my helios64 with SSD),

but the original thermal pad is of very poor quality (it insulates more than it dissipates).

If you have high enough usage I would recommend changing the thermal pad or having the more severe fan control variables for safety

or only not to use your helios64 without safety net (without thermal control it is hardware suicide with original thermal pad).

 

Thank BipBip1981

[BipBip1981]

4 hours ago, alchemist said:

Hi!

 

seems the udev rule needs to be rewritten too. I will look at that later...

 

EDIT: @BipBip1981 do you really run kernel 5.15 or is your workaround for 5.10?

 

Hello, yes, -> Welcome to Armbian 21.08.6 Hirsute with bleeding edge Linux 5.15.5-rockchip64

[alchemist]

oh, thanks! I will take a look on this release of Armbian :-)

[alchemist]

Finally OK with vanilla 5.16 kernel.

 

I have to edit the UDEV rule in order to alias fan1 and fan2 to fan-p6 and fan-p7, see the lines "fan1" and "fan2":

 

# Helios64 persistent hwmon

ACTION=="remove", GOTO="helios64_hwmon_end"

#
KERNELS=="p6-fan", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p6", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1"
KERNELS=="p7-fan", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p7", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1"
KERNELS=="2-004c", SUBSYSTEMS=="i2c", DRIVERS=="lm75", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1"
KERNELS=="thermal_zone0", SUBSYSTEMS=="thermal", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1"

KERNELS=="fan1", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p6", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1"
KERNELS=="fan2", SUBSYSTEMS=="platform", ENV{_HELIOS64_FAN_}="p7", ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}="1", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1"


SUBSYSTEM!="hwmon|thermal", GOTO="helios64_hwmon_end"

ENV{HWMON_PATH}="/sys%p"
#
ATTR{type}=="soc-thermal", ENV{HWMON_PATH}="/sys%p/temp", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/thermal-cpu/temp1_input", RUN+="/usr/bin/mkdir /dev/thermal-cpu/"
ATTR{name}=="cpu|cpu_thermal", ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}="1", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/thermal-cpu"
#
ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}=="1", ATTR{name}=="lm75", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/thermal-board"
ENV{_IS_HELIOS64_FAN_}=="1", ENV{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}="/dev/fan-$env{_HELIOS64_FAN_}"

#
ENV{IS_HELIOS64_HWMON}=="1", RUN+="/bin/ln -sf $env{HWMON_PATH} $env{HELIOS64_SYMLINK}"

LABEL="helios64_hwmon_end"