[PATCH] cpuidle: add Calxeda SOC idle support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Nov 12 17:00:07 EST 2012


On Wednesday 07 November 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> 
> Add support for core powergating on Calxeda platforms. Initially, this
> supports ECX-1000 (highbank), but support will be added for ECX-2000
> later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown at intel.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at sisk.pl>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

> It's not really clear where we want ARM cpuidle drivers. We're moving
> everything else out of arch/arm, and my understanding is Len doesn't want
> them in drivers/idle. It seems kind of silly to me to have the framework
> and drivers in 2 places. I've put this in drivers/cpuidle, but it doesn't
> make any difference to me.

Fine with me. I just don't want in in arch/arm because I'm guessing this will
be shared with arm64, which in turn shares idle (and other) drivers with various
powerpc, mips and x86 socs.

	Arnd



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