linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/14] ARM: sun8i: clk: Add clk-factor rate application method

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Message-Id: <20160701094719.9f7e28d93595d9cf7820e7dd@free.fr>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:47:19 +0200
From:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
To:	Ondřej Jirman <megous@...ous.com>
Cc:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
	<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, dev@...ux-sunxi.org,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"open list:COMMON CLK FRAMEWORK" <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/14] ARM: sun8i: clk: Add clk-factor rate
 application method

On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:34:21 +0200
Ondřej Jirman <megous@...ous.com> wrote:

> > The documentation says that only the CPU and DDR PLLs can be dynamically
> > changed after boot.
> 
> The question is what exactly is meant by after boot. :) Anyway, if the
> kernel has no business changing some other PLLs, if there's code for
> changing them, should it be dropped?

No, because all the other PLLs may not be initialized by the U-boot
(audio, video, gpu...), and also, their rate may be changed safely by
stopping them (gate).

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