[PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq: ti: Add cpufreq driver to determine available OPPs at runtime

Viresh Kumar
2016-09-26T04:33:44Z

On 23-09-16, 11:17, Dave Gerlach wrote:
> On 09/23/2016 12:19 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> >On 21-09-16, 14:34, Dave Gerlach wrote:
> >>Viresh,
> >>On 09/07/2016 10:39 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> >>>On 07-09-16, 10:04, Dave Gerlach wrote:
> >>>>>>+static const struct of_device_id ti_cpufreq_of_match[] = {
> >>>>>>+ { .compatible = "operating-points-v2-ti-am3352-cpu",
> >>>>>>+ .data = &am3x_soc_data, },
> >>>>>>+ { .compatible = "operating-points-v2-ti-am4372-cpu",
> >>>>>>+ .data = &am4x_soc_data, },
> >>>>>>+ { .compatible = "operating-points-v2-ti-dra7-cpu",
> >>>>>>+ .data = &dra7_soc_data },
> >>>>>
> >>>>>You should be using your SoC compatible strings here. OPP compatible
> >>>>>property isn't supposed to be (mis)used for this purpose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Referring to my comments in patch 1, what if we end up changing the bindings
> >>>>based on DT maintainer comments? We will have these compatible strings, and
> >>>>at that point is it acceptable to match against them? Or is it still better
> >>>>to match to SoC compatibles? I think it makes sense to just probe against
> >>>>these.
> >>>
> >>>But even then I think these are not correct. You should have added a
> >>>single compatible string: operating-points-v2-ti-cpu.
> >>>
> >>>As the properties will stay the same across machines. And then you
> >>>need to use SoC strings here.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Are you opposed to moving _of_get_opp_desc_node from
> >>drivers/base/power/opp/opp.h to include/linux/pm_opp.h and renaming it
> >>appropriately?
> >
> >I am not opposed to that, but ...
> >
> >>If I move the ti properties out of the cpu node, as discussed in patch 1 of
> >>this series, and into the operating-points-v2 table, I need a way to get the
> >>operating-points-v2 device node and I think it makes sense to reuse this as
> >>it is what the opp framework uses internally to parse the phandle to the opp
> >>table.
> >
> >I am not sure if those registers belong to the OPP bindings. What are those
> >registers really? What all can be read from them? Why shouldn't they be present
> >as a separate node in DT on the respective bus? Look at how it is done for
> >sti-cpufreq driver.
> >
>
> The sti-cpufreq driver in v4.8-rc7 appears to do what I am already doing in
> this revision of the patch, reading from a syscon phandle that is part of
> the cpu node in the DT which is what I was told not to do.
>
> The register I am referencing in the syscon is a bit-field describing which
> OPPs are valid for the system, so it is very relevant to the OPP binding.
> They really are already present in a separate node, I'm just indexing into a
> syscon, same as the sti-cpufreq driver appears to be doing.

Okay, you can move that function out.

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viresh