On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:40 AM Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is a first RFC for Core Power Reduction (CPR), a form of > Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS), found on certain Qualcomm SoCs. > > Since this is simply an RFC, things like MAINTAINERS hasn't > been updated yet. > > CPR is a technology that reduces core power on a CPU or on other device. > It reads voltage settings from efuses (that have been written in production), > it uses these voltage settings as initial values, for each OPP. > > After moving to a certain OPP, CPR monitors dynamic factors such as > temperature, etc. and adjusts the voltage for that frequency accordingly > to save power and meet silicon characteristic requirements. > > This driver is based on an RFC by Stephen Boyd[1], which in turn is > based on work by others on codeaurora.org[2]. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/18/833 > [2] https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/tree/drivers/regulator/cpr-regulator.c?h=msm-3.10 Please add relevant people to all the patches as it makes their life easier and never miss anyone from the cover-letter :) -- viresh
