Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:05:46 +0100 |
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On 21/11/2017 19:00, Javi Merino wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:57:06AM -0800, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > > [snip] > >> As I said before, the minimal you guys (ARM and Linaro) can do is to at >> least upstream the Juno code! as a reference. Come on guys? what is >> preventing you to upstream Juno model? > > As Ionela pointed out earlier in the thread, the cpufreq driver for Juno > was not acceptable for mainline because it used platform specific code. > When it was converted to cpufreq-dt, the static power was left behind > because it can't be represented in device tree. This is because there > isn't a function that works for every SoC, different process nodes > (among other things) will need different functions. So it can't be just > a bunch of coefficients in DT, we need a function. Hence the callback.
The DT could contain the coef and a compatible string for a specific polynomial computation callback. I imagine we should not have a lot of different equations, no ?
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