[PATCH v5 0/6] exynos: Move pmu driver to driver/soc folder and add exynos7 support
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Sun Nov 30 03:49:46 PST 2014
On Saturday 29 November 2014 19:45:02 Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> This patch series [1 - 6] performs,
>
> 1) Moves pmu driver to driver/soc/samsung folder. This is needed as exynos7 is
> an arm64 based platform and hence PMU driver should be in driver folder.
> Some discussion happened about this in the v1 version. Finally adding it in
> driver/soc folder as it too SoC specific and not a general driver.
> Entire discussion can be found here (A).
> 2) Add exynos7 PMU support.
> 3) Enables the driver for 32bit arm exynos platforms.
>
> TODO: There is some suggestion to split the PMU data for 32 bit and 64 bit
> Exynos SOC. This can be implemented as a separate optimization patches.
> Submitting this version without much change from previous version as the merge
> window is near.
I only now saw this series. I think it's a bad idea to have this code shared
with arm64 at all, and I want to see a proper driver for the PMU.
Arnd
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