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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 04/11] dt: psci: Update DT bindings to support hierarchical PSCI states
On 12 October 2018 at 12:13, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:43:11AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 11 October 2018 at 18:41, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> > Yes, nearly there. Just thought good to add a note that the representation
>> > has no affinity towards any PSCI idle state mechanism(PC or OSI). So
>> > that it's never assumed or misunderstood.
>>
>> I understand your point. However, I think the following sentence still
>> makes sense (exist in the suggest change above).
>>
>> "In PSCI firmware v1.0, the OS-Initiated mode is introduced. In order
>> to use it, the hierarchical representation must be used."
>>
>> How about if I add: "For the default platform-coordinated mode, both
>> representations are viable options."
>>
> I would also add couple of things, how about this order:
>
> In PSCI firmware v1.0, the OS-Initiated mode is introduced. However the
> flattened vs hierarchical DT representation of power domains is orthogonal
> to OS-Initiated vs platform-coordinated PSCI CPU suspend modes and
> should be considered independent of each other.
>
> The hierarchical representation helps and makes it easy to implement
> OSI mode and OS implementations may choose to mandate it.
>
> For the default platform-coordinated mode, both representations are
> viable options.

This looks great! I am adding it to the next version, thanks!

Kind regards
Uffe

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