linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff

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Message-ID: <6cd409ee-c839-09ad-3fa2-5309b0d007f5@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:05:46 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
Cc:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Lukasz Luba <llu.ker.dev@...il.com>,
        Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@....com>,
        Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@...il.com>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff

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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