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

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Fri May 30 11:48:03 PDT 2014



On 30/05/14 19:41, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah, I misunderstood that. That should be fine as it avoids duplication.

Regards,
Sudeep




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