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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>,
	rjw@rjwysocki.net, viresh.kumar@linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	john.garry@huawei.com,
	Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>,
	Souvik Chakravarty <Souvik.Chakravarty@arm.com>,
	Thanu Rangarajan <Thanu.Rangarajan@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cpufreq: add support for HiSilicon SoC HIP09
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:49:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506124932.GA20426@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ba950dd-4065-e4a5-d406-dc5c6c1781a7@huawei.com>

+ Thanu, Souvik who work with ASWG

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:36:51PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Sudeep,
>
> On 2020/4/30 17:55, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 02:19:59PM +0800, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
> > > HiSilicon SoC has a separate System Control Processor(SCP) dedicated for
> > > clock frequency adjustment and has been using the cpufreq driver
> > > 'cppc-cpufreq'. New HiSilicon SoC HIP09 add support for CPU Boost, but
> > > ACPI CPPC doesn't support this. In HiSilicon SoC HIP09, each core has
> > > its own clock domain. It is better for the core itself to adjust its
> > > frequency when we require fast response. In this patch, we add a
> > > separate cpufreq driver for HiSilicon SoC HIP09.
> > >
> >
> > I disagree with this approach unless you have tried to extend the CPPC
> > in ACPI to accommodate this boost feature you need. Until you show those
> > efforts and disagreement to do that from ASWG, I am NACKing this approach.
>
> Unfortunately we are not in ASWG at now, could you please give some
> help about extending CPPC in ACPI to support boost feature?
>

You may have to provide more details than the commit log for sure as I
haven't understood the boost feature and what is missing in ACPI CPPC.

--
Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-06 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30  6:19 [RFC PATCH] cpufreq: add support for HiSilicon SoC HIP09 Xiongfeng Wang
2020-04-30  9:55 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-05-05  2:12   ` Xiongfeng Wang
2020-05-06  9:36   ` Hanjun Guo
2020-05-06 12:49     ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2020-05-06 12:58       ` Thanu Rangarajan
2020-05-06 14:57         ` Souvik Chakravarty
2020-05-07 13:04           ` Hanjun Guo

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