Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] cpufreq:boost:Kconfig: Provide support for software managed BOOST

Viresh Kumar
2013-08-26T05:35:13Z

On 13 August 2013 15:38, Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> wrote:
> For safety reasons new flag - CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_BOOST_SW has been added.
> Only after selecting "EXYNOS Frequency Overclocking - Software" Kconfig
> option the software managed boost is enabled. It also selects thermal
> subsystem to be compiled in. Thermal is necessary for disabling boost
> and cooling down the device when overheating detected.
>
> Boost _MUST_NOT_ work without thermal subsystem with properly defined
> overheating temperatures.
>
> This option doesn't affect x86's ACPI hardware managed boost support
> (i.e. Intel, AMD). In this situation boost management is embedded at
> hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Myungjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
>
> ---
> Changes for v7:
> - Remove superfluous "default n" definition
> - Generic CPU_FREQ_BOOST_SW depends on THERMAL

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>