Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: rockchip: add driver

From: Feng Xiao
Date: Mon Mar 21 2016 - 21:28:01 EST


I get it, thanks.

å 2016/3/21 23:52, Heiko StÃbner åé:
Am Montag, 21. MÃrz 2016, 16:13:40 schrieb Heiko StÃbner:
Hi,

Am Montag, 21. MÃrz 2016, 21:24:32 schrieb Feng Xiao:
å 2016/3/21 17:58, Viresh Kumar åé:
On 21-03-16, 10:54, Heiko StÃbner wrote:
I hadn't seen that yet ... nice that cpufreq-dt now also supports
clusters :-)

The other part still stands though, as we probably should register the
platform-device somewhere else and not in some new special module.

When everything is using cpufreq-dt now, I guess we could just add it
to
the core rockchip clk-code. Or was there some agreement where this
should be done (obviously not the devicetree itself)?
Of_clk_init is called early, and platform_device_register_simple should
be called after devices_init, it will be failed to do it from clk-code.
So we need add a new file or add module_init to each clock controller
driver(like clk-rk3368.c, clk-rk3399.c) ?
as Viresh said, it should be ok to do it like your approach creating a
module in drivers/cpufreq. But the compatible check is necessary.

Doing it this way also makes it easier to have
Seem like I forgot the complete my sentence here. This should've been

Doing it this way also makes it easier to have everything go into cpufreq-dt
once that whitelist appears that Viresh wrote about. So this might be better
than to distribute this stuff around other subsystems, as I originally
suggested.

Yeah, there was a discussion around creating a white or black list of
platforms that want to create a platform device for cpufreq-dt. That can
be done in cpufreq-dt.c or a new file, but I haven't worked out on that
yet.

You can do it from clk-code or from the driver that was added in this
thread. Just that you need to match your platform's compatible string
before doing that.
Rockchip-cpufreq.c depends on ARM_ROCKCHIP_CPUFREQ, it will not be
compiled on non-Rockchip platforms.
The driver can support all Rockchip SoCs up to now, add
of_machine_is_compatible may be redundant ?
Please always keep multiplatform in mind. These days the kernel can be
compiled for multiple architectures at the same time, so you can have
support for Rockchip, Exynos, Qualcom and whatever in the same kernel
image.

Therefore a compile-time check is not enough and you need to check the
actually running machine as well.


Heiko