[PATCH v2 1/4] cpufreq-dt: add clock domain and intermediate frequency support

Pi-Cheng Chen pi-cheng.chen at linaro.org
Wed Mar 4 23:28:47 PST 2015


On 5 March 2015 at 11:58, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 5 March 2015 at 09:02, Pi-Cheng Chen <pi-cheng.chen at linaro.org> wrote:
>> In the case of Mediatek SoC, the intermediate frequency might not be one entry
>> of OPP table. To elaborate, the source clock node of the CPUs/Cluster on
>> Mediatek SoC is a mux. The mux has several PLLs as parents. When we are
>> doing CPU frequency scaling, the mux should re-parent to another stable PLL,
>> wait until the original parent PLL become stable, and then switch back to the
>> original parent. In this case, we could but we might not want the intermediate
>> frequency as part of OPP table. Therefore I save intermediate_freq instead of
>> intermediate frequency index in the cpufreq_dt_platform_datat struct.
>
> Hmm, I remember that discussion. Okay leave it as is.

Okay.

>
>> BTW, is this case that intermediate frequency is not necessarily be one entry
>> of OPP table supported in the OPPv2 bindings?
>
> Not yet, but will add a property for that.

Thanks for taking this case into consideration.

Best Regards,
Pi-Cheng



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