On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 09:05:50PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > Introduce core voltage scaling for NVIDIA Tegra20/30 SoCs, which reduces > power consumption and heating of the Tegra chips. Tegra SoC has multiple > hardware units which belong to a core power domain of the SoC and share > the core voltage. The voltage must be selected in accordance to a minimum > requirement of every core hardware unit. > > The minimum core voltage requirement depends on: > > 1. Clock enable state of a hardware unit. > 2. Clock frequency. > 3. Unit's internal idling/active state. > > This series is tested on Acer A500 (T20), AC100 (T20), Nexus 7 (T30), > Ouya (T30), TK1 (T124) and some others. I also added voltage scaling to > the Ventana (T20) and Cardhu (T30) boards which are tested by NVIDIA's CI > farm. Tegra30 is now couple degrees cooler on Nexus 7 and stays cool on > Ouya (instead of becoming burning hot) while system is idling. It should > be possible to improve this further by implementing a more advanced power > management features for the kernel drivers. > > The DVFS support is opt-in for all boards, meaning that older DTBs will > continue to work like they did it before this series. It should be possible > to easily add the core voltage scaling support for Tegra114+ SoCs based on > this grounding work later on, if anyone will want to implement it. The same comment as for your interconnect work: for sets touching multiple systems please mention the dependencies between patches in the cover letter. Not as a reply to such remark like I make here, but as a separate entry in the cover letter. Best regards, Krzysztof
