[PATCH v6 2/2] Documentation: devicetree: Add boost-frequency binding to list boost mode frequency

Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Fri May 30 11:41:47 PDT 2014


On 30.05.2014 20:38, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On 30/05/14 19:15, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>> On 30.05.2014 20:05, Thomas Abraham wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>>> wrote:

[snip]

>>>> Why are these in both operating-points and boost-frequencies? It'll be
>>>> really easy to accidentally forget to mark something as a
>>>> boost-frequency this way. Why not have a boost-points instead?
>>>
> 
> I was told that index is not preferred based on the previous discussions
> when the OPP bindings were designed. In addition the OPP binding doesn't
> enforce any ordering. There are thermal bindings that assume otherwise and
> is broken. So boost-points is not feasible.
> 

My understanding of Mark's comment was that the boost-points property
would use the same format as operating-points and parsing code would
just concatenate operating points with boost points after making the
latter with necessary flag or whatever.

Best regards,
Tomasz



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