[PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Powerdomain: Remove the need to always have a voltdm associated to a pwrdm
Kevin Hilman
khilman at linaro.org
Fri Jun 14 09:59:45 EDT 2013
Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com> writes:
> The powerdomain framework expects all powerdomains to be associated with
s/expects/currently expects/
> a corresponding voltagedomain. For some SoCs' (like the already existing AM33xx
> family, or for the upcoming AM437x and DRA7 SoCs') which
> do not have a Voltage controller/Voltage Processor (neither the SR I2C
> bus to communicate with the PMIC) there is no need for a Powerdomain to have
> a voltage domain association (since they are really non scaleable, even
> though the voltage domains exist in place).
This last phrase inside the parentheses doesn't make sense to me.
Reading that makes me think that the lack of an on-chip voltage domain
means that evn an external regulators can't scale the voltage, which I
don't believe is the case.
> Extend the arch operations to add an api which the powerdomain core can
> then use to identify if a voltdm lookup and association for a powerdomain
> is really needed.
Yes, this idea looks right to me.
In addition to the wording above, a minor nit below...
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.h b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.h
> index 140c360..8ed89de 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.h
> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ struct powerdomain {
> * @pwrdm_disable_hdwr_sar: Disable Hardware Save-Restore feature for a pd
> * @pwrdm_set_lowpwrstchange: Enable pd transitions from a shallow to deep sleep
> * @pwrdm_wait_transition: Wait for a pd state transition to complete
> + * @pwrdm_has_voltdmi: Check if a voltdm association is needed
s/voltdmi/voltdm/
Kevin
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