[PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling)

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Mon May 7 19:51:14 EDT 2012


Rafael,

Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com> writes:

> From: J Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com>
>
> AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling) is a power management technique which
> controls the operating voltage of a device in order to optimize (i.e. reduce)
> its power consumption. The voltage is adapted depending on static factors
> (chip manufacturing process) and dynamic factors (temperature
> depending performance).
> The TI AVS solution is named Smartreflex. 
>
> To that end, create the AVS driver in drivers/power/avs and
> move the OMAP SmartReflex code to the new directory. The
> class driver is still retained in the mach-omap2 directory.

How should we handle this for upstream?

It does a bunch of cleanup under arch/arm then does the move to
drivers/power the end.  To avoid conflicts with other OMAP core changes,
I would suggest we take this through the OMAP tree.

With your ack, I'd be glad to take it.

Thanks,

Kevin




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