[LEDE-DEV] CPU locked at lowest frequency on BCM2078 targets

[Stijn Tintel]

On 13-05-17 14:48, Bryan Mayland wrote:
> Hello, I work on an open source project which uses the Raspberry Pi
> with LEDE as the host board. I've noticed that the kernel config does
> not include the BCM2835 cpufreq driver and therefore the CPU remains
> locked at the frequency set by the bootloader. This severely degrades
> the performance of these devices as the bootloader sets the CPU at the
> lowest frequency. I've run some nbench-byte benchmarks on bcm2708 and
> bcm2709 (32-bit) platforms:
>
Hi, thanks for pointing that out.
> Can we get cpufreq, ondemand scaler, and default=ondemand for this
> platform / two targets? If needed I can submit a patch / signoff, or
> if there is a reason this should not be done I'd love to start a
> discussion about it.
Please test a build from my staging tree:
https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/stintel/staging.git;a=summary

Thanks,
Stijn