Re: [PATCH v1 00/30] Introduce core voltage scaling for NVIDIA Tegra20/30 SoCs

Ulf Hansson
2020-11-05T10:35:06Z

On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 11:06, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 05-11-20, 10:45, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > + Viresh
>
> Thanks Ulf. I found a bug in OPP core because you cc'd me here :)

Happy to help. :-)

>
> > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 00:44, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need some more time to review this, but just a quick check found a
> > few potential issues...
> >
> > The "core-supply", that you specify as a regulator for each
> > controller's device node, is not the way we describe power domains.
>
> Maybe I misunderstood your comment here, but there are two ways of
> scaling the voltage of a device depending on if it is a regulator (and
> can be modeled as one in the kernel) or a power domain.

I am not objecting about scaling the voltage through a regulator,
that's fine to me. However, encoding a power domain as a regulator
(even if it may seem like a regulator) isn't. Well, unless Mark Brown
has changed his mind about this.

In this case, it seems like the regulator supply belongs in the
description of the power domain provider.

>
> In case of Qcom earlier (when we added the performance-state stuff),
> the eventual hardware was out of kernel's control and we didn't wanted
> (allowed) to model it as a virtual regulator just to pass the votes to
> the RPM. And so we did what we did.
>
> But if the hardware (where the voltage is required to be changed) is
> indeed a regulator and is modeled as one, then what Dmitry has done
> looks okay. i.e. add a supply in the device's node and microvolt
> property in the DT entries.

I guess I haven't paid enough attention how power domain regulators
are being described then. I was under the impression that the CPUfreq
case was a bit specific - and we had legacy bindings to stick with.

Can you point me to some other existing examples of where power domain
regulators are specified as a regulator in each device's node?

Kind regards
Uffe