[RFC PATCH v5 1/4] cpufreq: Add a cpufreq driver for Marvell Dove

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Sat Dec 21 11:26:45 EST 2013


> > +Dove cpufreq driver
> > +-------------------
> > +
> > +The Dove cpufreq driver makes use of the pmu node in the device tree.
> 
> I would prefer to reword this to make it OS-agnostic.  The cpufreq
> driver is Linux-specific.

Hi Jason

Why is it Linux specific? Why for example would the FreeBSD cpu freq
driver not be able to use this?

> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatibility: Must be "marvell,dove-pmu"
> > +- interrupts:	 Interrupt to know the completion of cpu frequency change.
> > +- clocks:	 phandles and clock specifiers pairs for CPU and DDR clock
> > +- clock-names: 	 "cpu" and "ddr"
> > +- reg: 		 Address ranges of the PMU. Two ranges are expected.
> 
> Shall we define the two ranges?

Yes, i will extend this, once Mark agrees to the basic idea.

Thanks
	Andrew



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