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authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>2013-04-01 14:57:49 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2013-04-02 15:26:32 +0200
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cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: Add generic cpufreq driver and its DT glue
big LITTLE is ARM's new Architecture focussing power/performance needs of modern world. More information about big LITTLE can be found here: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/biglittleprocessing.php http://lwn.net/Articles/481055/ In order to keep cpufreq support for all big LITTLE platforms simple/generic, this patch tries to add a generic cpufreq driver layer for all big LITTLE platforms. The driver is divided into two parts: - Core driver: Generic and shared across all big LITTLE SoC's - Glue drivers: Per platform drivers providing ops to the core driver This patch adds in a generic glue driver which would extract information from Device Tree. Future SoC's can either reuse the DT glue or write their own depending on the need. Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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+Generic ARM big LITTLE cpufreq driver's DT glue
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+This is DT specific glue layer for generic cpufreq driver for big LITTLE
+systems.
+
+Both required and optional properties listed below must be defined
+under node /cpus/cpu@x. Where x is the first cpu inside a cluster.
+
+FIXME: Cpus should boot in the order specified in DT and all cpus for a cluster
+must be present contiguously. Generic DT driver will check only node 'x' for
+cpu:x.
+
+Required properties:
+- operating-points: Refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt
+ for details
+
+Optional properties:
+- clock-latency: Specify the possible maximum transition latency for clock,
+ in unit of nanoseconds.
+
+Examples:
+
+cpus {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+
+ cpu@0 {
+ compatible = "arm,cortex-a15";
+ reg = <0>;
+ next-level-cache = <&L2>;
+ operating-points = <
+ /* kHz uV */
+ 792000 1100000
+ 396000 950000
+ 198000 850000
+ >;
+ clock-latency = <61036>; /* two CLK32 periods */
+ };
+
+ cpu@1 {
+ compatible = "arm,cortex-a15";
+ reg = <1>;
+ next-level-cache = <&L2>;
+ };
+
+ cpu@100 {
+ compatible = "arm,cortex-a7";
+ reg = <100>;
+ next-level-cache = <&L2>;
+ operating-points = <
+ /* kHz uV */
+ 792000 950000
+ 396000 750000
+ 198000 450000
+ >;
+ clock-latency = <61036>; /* two CLK32 periods */
+ };
+
+ cpu@101 {
+ compatible = "arm,cortex-a7";
+ reg = <101>;
+ next-level-cache = <&L2>;
+ };
+};