Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Exynos Adaptive Supply Voltage support

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 09-08-19, 17:58, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> 
> For some Exynos SoC variants the algorithm of selecting CPU voltage supply
> is a bit more complex than just selecting a column in the frequency/voltage 
> matrix, i.e. selecting a set of voltage values for whole frequency range.
> 
> Frequency range could be divided into sub-ranges and to each such a sub-range 
> part of different column could be assigned, depending on data fused in 
> the CHIPID block registers.
> 
> We could create OPP node for each frequency and specify all needed voltages 
> as a list of "opp-microvolt-<name>" properties but apart from the fact that 
> it would have been quite many properties, e.g. 42 (3 tables * 14 columns), 
> only for some SoC types the dev_pm_opp_set_prop_name() approach could be 
> used. We would need to be able to set opp-microvolt-* property name 
> separately for each frequency (OPP).
> 
> Probably most future proof would be a DT binding where we could still 
> re-create those Exynos-specific ASV tables from DT. For example add named 
> opp-microvolt-* properties or something similar to hold rows of each ASV 
> table. But that conflicts with "operating-points-v2" binding, where 
> multiple OPP voltage values are described by just named properties and 
> multiple entries correspond to min/target/max.
> 
> opp_table0 {
> 	compatible = "...", "operating-points-v2";
> 	opp-shared;
> 	opp-2100000000 {
> 		opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <1800000000>;
> 		opp-microvolt = <...>;
> 		opp-microvolt-t1 = <1362500>, <1350000>, ....;
> 		opp-microvolt-t2 = <1362500>, <1360000>, ....;
> 		opp-microvolt-t3 = <1362500>, <1340000>, ....;
> 	};
> 	...
> 	opp-200000000 {
> 		opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <200000000>;
> 		opp-microvolt = <...>;
> 		opp-microvolt-t1 = <900000>, <900000>, ....;
> 		opp-microvolt-t2 = <900000>, <900000>, ....;
> 		opp-microvolt-t3 = <900000>, <900000>, ....;
> 	};
> };
> 
> I might be missing some information now on how those Exynos ASV tables 
> are used on other SoCs that would need to be supported.
> 
> There will be even more data to include when adding support for the Body
> Bias voltage, for each CPU supply voltage we could possibly have 
> corresponding Body Bias voltage.

Will something like this help ?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1442623929-4507-3-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org/

This never got merged but the idea was AVS only.

-- 
viresh

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