[PATCHv2 12/17] cpuidle: mvebu: make the cpuidle driver capable of handling multiple SoCs

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnd Bergmann,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:30:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > > It would be best to have a way to read a property (or multiple
> > > properties) from DT instead, to identify the requirements of the
> > > device individually. However, I guess that would also require
> > > changing the DT representation in an incompatible way, which we
> > > normally don't.
> > 
> > cpuidle is not represented in DT, so besides checking the global
> > compatible string with of_machine_is_compatible(), or passing data
> > through platform_data (as proposed in the patch series), I don't really
> > see how the cpuidle driver could find out which SoC variant is being
> > used.
> 
> One way I think it can be done is by looking up the pmsu node
> and then looking at some of the properties in there.

Which properties do you have in mind? Should we simply use different
compatible strings for the PMSU node, per SoC ? Some other suggestions ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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