From: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>,
Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] dt-bindings: clock: Add apple, cluster-clk binding
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:48:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0168a91d-0e7d-41df-8a65-bc739fc50498@marcan.st> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211012095735.mhh2lzu52ohtotl6@vireshk-i7>
On 12/10/2021 18.57, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> I didn't realize earlier that we have moved out of lists :)
Whoops, sorry, I was on mobile and must've hit the wrong reply button!
My apologies.
> On 12-10-21, 18:54, Hector Martin "marcan" wrote:
>> Typically cpufreq-dt is used with clock drivers that directly take
>> the clock frequency and do whatever voodoo is necessary to set it
>> for the CPU. But here, the hardware just wants to know the index,
>> and does everything itself. So we need to encode that somewhere, to
>> avoid hardcoding it in the clock driver.
>>
>> In general, based on how these SoCs are designed, we're trying to
>> avoid having tables of volatile information in the drivers, and
>> instead keep everything in the DT. This means we have a good chance
>> that these drivers will continue to work with future SoC
>> generations, since Apple doesn't change register definitions
>> randomly most of the time.
>
> Yeah I get that and it is actually better this way. I just wanted to
> point out that we didn't think of it this way earlier :)
Yeah, makes sense. Seems to work fine :)
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-11 16:56 [RFC PATCH 0/9] Apple SoC CPU P-state switching Hector Martin
2021-10-11 16:56 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] MAINTAINERS: apple: Add apple-mcc and clk-apple-cluster paths Hector Martin
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] dt-bindings: memory-controller: Add apple, mcc binding Hector Martin
2021-10-12 8:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] dt-bindings: memory-controller: Add apple,mcc binding Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-10-19 22:43 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] dt-bindings: clock: Add apple,cluster-clk binding Hector Martin
2021-10-12 8:51 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] dt-bindings: clock: Add apple, cluster-clk binding Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-10-12 9:35 ` Viresh Kumar
[not found] ` <D0DE08FE-562E-4A48-BCA0-9094DAFCA564@marcan.st>
[not found] ` <20211012094302.3cownyzr4phxwifs@vireshk-i7>
[not found] ` <64584F8C-D49F-41B5-9658-CF8A25186E67@marcan.st>
[not found] ` <20211012095735.mhh2lzu52ohtotl6@vireshk-i7>
2021-10-12 13:48 ` Hector Martin [this message]
2021-10-14 21:47 ` Stephen Boyd
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] opp: core: Don't warn if required OPP device does not exist Hector Martin
2021-10-12 3:21 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-10-12 5:34 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-12 5:51 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-10-12 5:57 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-12 9:26 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-10-12 9:31 ` Hector Martin "marcan"
2021-10-12 9:32 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-10-14 6:52 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-14 6:56 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-10-14 7:03 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-14 7:22 ` Viresh Kumar
2021-10-14 7:23 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-14 11:08 ` Ulf Hansson
2021-10-14 9:55 ` Ulf Hansson
2021-10-14 11:43 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-14 12:55 ` Ulf Hansson
2021-10-14 17:02 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-15 11:26 ` Ulf Hansson
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] PM: domains: Add of_genpd_add_provider_simple_noclk() Hector Martin
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] memory: apple: Add apple-mcc driver to manage MCC perf in Apple SoCs Hector Martin
2021-10-12 9:19 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-10-14 6:59 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-14 7:36 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-10-14 7:52 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-14 8:04 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-10-14 8:31 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] clk: apple: Add clk-apple-cluster driver to manage CPU p-states Hector Martin
2021-10-14 22:07 ` Stephen Boyd
2021-10-17 9:16 ` Hector Martin
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] arm64: apple: Select MEMORY and APPLE_MCC Hector Martin
2021-10-11 16:57 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] arm64: apple: Add CPU frequency scaling support for t8103 Hector Martin
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