[PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling)

J, KEERTHY j-keerthy at ti.com
Tue May 15 01:46:53 EDT 2012


On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> wrote:
> Rafael,
>
> Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com> writes:
>
>> From: J Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com>
>>
>> AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling) is a power management technique which
>> controls the operating voltage of a device in order to optimize (i.e. reduce)
>> its power consumption. The voltage is adapted depending on static factors
>> (chip manufacturing process) and dynamic factors (temperature
>> depending performance).
>> The TI AVS solution is named Smartreflex.
>>
>> To that end, create the AVS driver in drivers/power/avs and
>> move the OMAP SmartReflex code to the new directory. The
>> class driver is still retained in the mach-omap2 directory.
>
> How should we handle this for upstream?
>
> It does a bunch of cleanup under arch/arm then does the move to
> drivers/power the end.  To avoid conflicts with other OMAP core changes,
> I would suggest we take this through the OMAP tree.
>
> With your ack, I'd be glad to take it.

Hello Rafael,

A gentle ping on this series.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>



-- 
Regards and Thanks,
Keerthy



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