mainline kernel: cpufreq for bcm2835

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren at i2se.com
Mon Apr 2 13:08:37 PDT 2018


Hi Sergey,

> Sergey Suloev <ssuloev at orpaltech.com> hat am 2. April 2018 um 21:52 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi Stefan
> 
> On 04/02/2018 07:09 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> > Hi Sergey,
> >
> > [add linux-rpi-kernel]
> >
> >> Sergey Suloev <ssuloev at orpaltech.com> hat am 2. April 2018 um 17:45 geschrieben:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Stefan
> >>
> >> can any give any hint about the status of bcn2835 cpufreq in mainline
> >> kernel ?
> > in short: currently no support yet
> >
> >> Are you (or anyone else) working on it ?
> > No, this not on my TODO list [1].
> >
> > Current prio:
> > - Raspberry Pi 3+
> > - fixes and improvements for Raspberry Pi 3 DT
> > - VCHIQ data corruption
> >
> > Implementing/Porting the cpufreq driver is only half of the work. Also all drivers which depend on the VPU core clock should be able to handle a frequency change (sdhost, i2c, aux uart comes to my mind). But i will be happy if somebody takes care of it.
> >
> > Is this a critical feature for you?
> >
> > Best regards
> > Stefan
> >
> > [1] - https://github.com/lategoodbye/rpi-zero/issues
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> do you know a resource where OPP table for RPi3  can be obtained from ?

use the downstream kernel, select the userspace governor and get the values from the sysfs. For the first steps you could use min and max frequency.

Best regards
Stefan

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