[PATCH RFC] Add cpufreq support

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Mon Feb 8 04:31:12 PST 2016


On 08-02-16, 13:24, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Whatever you want to do in drivers/cpufreq that keeps this out of arch/arm/
> 
> As I have said numerous times, there is absolutely no point in having a
> platform device for this, but if you insist on having one

No, I don't insist on that. I just hate it.

But the problem was that we never agreed to a way, by which we could
have probed cpufreq-dt. We were talking about compatible string from
'opp-v2' earlier, but that was soon discarded.

> just write one
> file that has an early_initcall() function and move all the code creating
> those devices in there for platforms using DT, e.g. by matching on the
> root compatible string the same way the platform code does today.
>
> For new platforms, please come up with a way to not need that and create
> a generic binding that anyone can follow.

Do you have any suggestions ?
- We aren't allowed to (re)use opp-v2 compatibility string
- We can't add a DT node for virtual device - cpufreq

What else can be done ?

-- 
viresh



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