Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] PM / OPP: add support to specify phandle of another node for OPP

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On 07/30/2013 01:34 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 07/30/2013 12:00 PM, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@xxxxxxx>

If more than one similar devices share the same OPPs, currently we
need to replicate the OPP entries in all the nodes.

Few drivers like cpufreq depend on physical cpu0 node to specify the
OPPs and only that node is referred irrespective of the logical cpu
accessing it. Alternatively to support cpuhotplug path, few drivers
parse all the cpu nodes for OPPs. Instead we can specify the phandle
of the node with which the current node shares the operating points.

This patch adds support to specify the phandle in the operating points
of any device node, where the node specified by the phandle holds the
actual OPPs.

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt

+Optional properties:
+- operating-points-phandle: phandle to the device node with which this

That's a funny name. Bikeshedding a bit, how about shared-operating-points?

I haven't thought at all about whether this change conceptually makes sense.


They may not really be shared- we could have phandle list even. one might have optional OPP sets for a chip family that one may - I was about to suggest something similar to pinctrl

operating-points-names = "default", "performance", "cheapboard-config" ;)
operating-points-0 = <&...>
operating-points-1 = <&...>
operating-points-2 = <&...>

+ wanted also to consider how we might have a single definition to scale across to what Mike is attempting to do with a generic clock framework support for DVFS.

for compatibility sake, if operating-points is defined, we continue to expect old style definition, else we have options to pick from.

This should setup stage for many of the work we have been trying to figure out on AM/OMAP and few other processors which has to depend on few sets of OPPs which may not be supported on various platforms.

I am hoping our phandle solution could scale to all needed.
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Nishanth Menon
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