From: Igor Paunovic <royalnet026@gmail.com>
To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net>,
Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>,
Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Sidong Yang <sidong.yang@furiosa.ai>,
Diederik de Haas <diederik@cknow-tech.com>,
Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>,
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Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@ndufresne.ca>,
Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>,
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Igor Paunovic <royalnet026@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] dt-bindings: npu: rockchip: allow DVFS and thermal properties
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 15:08:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904130858.27803-3-royalnet026@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904130858.27803-1-royalnet026@gmail.com>
The three NPU cores on the RK3588 are fed by a single clock and a single
supply, and the firmware accepts a fixed set of rates for that clock.
Describing those rates as an operating-points-v2 table is what lets a
driver scale the NPU instead of leaving it at whatever rate the bootloader
set, so allow the property on the core node.
Throttling the NPU from a thermal zone needs the same node to be usable as
a cooling device, so allow #cooling-cells too.
Both properties belong on the core that carries the shared clock, not on
all three: the cores have no clock of their own and cannot be scaled or
throttled independently. Naming one representative node for a shared
frequency domain is the established shape, as in "Cpufreq cooling device
on CPU0" in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-cooling-devices.yaml.
The schema cannot enforce that placement, because all three cores share a
compatible string and a node name pattern, so which core carries them
stays a devicetree convention. That is the same situation as for CPU
cooling, where cpus.yaml does not restrict #cooling-cells to cpu@0 either.
The example gains #cooling-cells; the operating-points-v2 property is
exercised by the RK3588 devicetree later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Igor Paunovic <royalnet026@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: LLM checkpatch dt_binding_check
---
.../bindings/npu/rockchip,rk3588-rknn-core.yaml | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/rockchip,rk3588-rknn-core.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/rockchip,rk3588-rknn-core.yaml
index caca2a4903cd1..595aacfbf8608 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/rockchip,rk3588-rknn-core.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/npu/rockchip,rk3588-rknn-core.yaml
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ properties:
- const: npu
- const: pclk
+ "#cooling-cells":
+ description:
+ Present on the core that drives the shared NPU clock, which is the one
+ the operating-points-v2 table below is attached to. The other cores
+ cannot be throttled independently of it.
+ const: 2
+
interrupts:
maxItems: 1
@@ -50,6 +57,8 @@ properties:
npu-supply: true
+ operating-points-v2: true
+
power-domains:
maxItems: 1
@@ -100,6 +109,7 @@ examples:
clocks = <&cru ACLK_NPU0>, <&cru HCLK_NPU0>,
<&scmi_clk SCMI_CLK_NPU>, <&cru PCLK_NPU_ROOT>;
clock-names = "aclk", "hclk", "npu", "pclk";
+ #cooling-cells = <2>;
interrupts = <GIC_SPI 110 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH 0>;
iommus = <&rknn_mmu_0>;
npu-supply = <&vdd_npu_s0>;
--
2.43.0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-04 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-04 13:08 [PATCH 0/7] accel/rocket: DVFS for the RK3588 NPU Igor Paunovic
2026-09-04 13:08 ` [PATCH 1/7] accel/rocket: request the core clocks by name Igor Paunovic
2026-09-04 13:08 ` Igor Paunovic [this message]
2026-09-04 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/7] dt-bindings: npu: rockchip: allow DVFS and thermal properties Conor Dooley
2026-09-04 13:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: dts: rockchip: rk3588: add an OPP table for the NPU Igor Paunovic
2026-09-04 13:08 ` [PATCH 4/7] accel/rocket: restore the NPU clock boot rate before powering the cores down Igor Paunovic
2026-09-04 13:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] accel/rocket: add devfreq support Igor Paunovic
2026-09-04 13:08 ` [PATCH 6/7] accel/rocket: register a devfreq cooling device Igor Paunovic
2026-09-04 13:08 ` [PATCH 7/7] arm64: dts: rockchip: rk3588: add passive cooling to the NPU thermal zone Igor Paunovic
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