Am Freitag, den 26.10.2018, 15:03 +0300 schrieb Dmitry Osipenko: [...] > > On the other hand, the tegra20 cpufreq driver is common across a lot of boards. > > What will happen if the DT for some of the boards isn't correct and missed the > > necessary regulator node ? > > AFAIK, there is assumption that bootloader should setup regulators in > a way that kernel could work properly at max clock rates. Otherwise > things won't work. This isn't true. The assumption is that the bootloader sets up the regulators such that stable operation at the CPU speed used by the bootloader is guaranteed. Often the bootloader doesn't know about specific SKUs, so drives things at a rate/voltage that is safe across all SKUs [1], in which case the bootloader is totally unaware of the voltage needed to run the CPU at highest possible clock frequency. Regards, Lucas [1] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=2364e151e432b4ccf32dc9e6147121253d4ff86d
