Device tree binding for DVFS table

Prashant Gaikwad pgaikwad at nvidia.com
Thu Jul 12 00:14:11 EDT 2012


On Thursday 12 July 2012 01:34 AM, Mike Turquette wrote:
> On 20120711-15:44, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>>> I'd expect a single property with freq/volt pairs or 2 properties for
>>> freq and voltage where there is a 1:1 relationship (freq N uses voltage N).
>> I strongly agree - the current proposal is very hard to read due to the
>> separation between the voltage and frequency values.  Some devices do
>> also need to scale multiple rails together, especially when this gets
>> used for I/O devices.
>>
>> I'd also expect to see a range of voltages for each frequency rather
>> than a specific voltage; usually things are at least characterised with
>> a specified tolerance.
> Not only should we support multiple voltage rails but also multiple
> clocks.  For some devices a DVFS transition is composed of scaling
> multiple clock rates together.  So some sort of clock identifier
> (phandle?) is needed as well.  (forgive my ignorance on the phandle
> part, as I am a DT noob)

How about adding phandle of clock consumer node to frequency table?

> Regards,
> Mike




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