[PATCH 3/6] ARM: dts: sun8i: add a cpu0 label to cpu at 0 node on A23/33
Sudeep Holla
sudeep.holla at arm.com
Tue Dec 13 08:45:05 PST 2016
On 13/12/16 16:31, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 13/12/16 15:22, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>>> A "cpu0" label is needed on cpu at 0 for cpufreq-dt to work.
>>>
>>
>> IIUC any label should be fine and I don't see anything in the driver
>> looking for such label name. All I see is it looks for cpu0 regulator
>> for *legacy* DTs
>>
>>> Add such a label, in order to prepare for cpufreq support of A23/33.
>>>
>>
>> You need this as you add the same label in the following patches. The
>> commit message sounds like cpufreq-dt search for that label by name.
>
> I think a more proper explanation would be:
>
> The cpu's supply regulator is specified at the board level, hence we
> need to add a label to it to reference it without replicating the whole
> tree structure.
Thanks for clarifying, was confused based on the commit log.
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Regards,
Sudeep
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