[RFC][PATCH v4? 0/7] Adaptive Body-Bias for OMAP

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Oct 16 17:59:00 EDT 2012


* Kevin Hilman <khilman at deeprootsystems.com> [121016 14:51]:
> Mike Turquette <mturquette at ti.com> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Tony Lindgren (2012-10-16 09:32:25)
> >> * Mike Turquette <mturquette at ti.com> [121011 15:27]:
> >> > Quoting Nishanth Menon (2012-10-11 06:33:04)
> >> > > On 18:26-20121003, Mike Turquette wrote:
> >> > > > From: Mike Turquette <mturquette at linaro.org>
> >> > > [...]
> >> > > > 
> >> > > >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile                  |    8 +-
> >> > > >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.c                     |  322 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> > > >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.h                     |   94 ++++++++
> >> > > [...]
> >> > > >  arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/voltage.h     |    1 +
> >> > > >  18 files changed, 699 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >> > > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.c
> >> > > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.h
> >> > > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb36xx_data.c
> >> > > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb44xx_data.c
> >> > > 
> >> > > dumb question: with the request to move everything out of mach-omap2
> >> > > directory, do we still want to add more files into mach-omap2?
> >> > > 
> >> > 
> >> > Not a dumb question at all.  I approached this problem by modeling it
> >> > after existing voltage layer code (in particular the vp and vc drivers).
> >> > 
> >> > My hope is to get it merged as-is and then bundle the abb code up with
> >> > the vp/vc migration to drivers/* when that happens some day.  People
> >> > using omap36xx and above need this code now, so it seems prudent to take
> >> > this approach today.
> >> 
> >> This is needed, but makes moving the vc code to drivers a bit
> >> more complex.
> >> 
> >> So we also need a plan to move this all to drivers in the follow
> >> up patches. And we need a maintainer for the code. Who is going to
> >> be doing all that?
> >> 
> >
> > Is there already somebody committed to moving vp/vc code out to drivers?
> 
> Yes, VC/VP is part of the bigger PRM/CM move in progress.
> 
> For now, I'm ok with adding a little more VC/VP stuff since it's already
> well isolated in the prmXXXX.c files (though it might need a rebase on
> Paul's recent PRM/CM cleanup stuff.)
> 
> > If so then I can take responsibility for moving the abb code and
> > coordinate with that person.  

Thanks Mike & Kevin, sounds good to me.

Regards,

Tony



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