linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: imx-sc: add i.mx system controller cpufreq support

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:35:32 +0000
From:   Anson Huang <anson.huang@....com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: imx-sc: add i.mx system controller cpufreq
 support



Best Regards!
Anson Huang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viresh Kumar [mailto:viresh.kumar@...aro.org]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: imx-sc: add i.mx system controller cpufreq
> support
> 
> On 13-02-19, 08:53, Anson Huang wrote:
> > Forgot to mention, i.MX system controller cpufreq actually can NOT do
> > any CPU clock/voltage scaling from Linux kernel, they are controlled
> > by system controller firmware and ONLY can be requested via RPC with
> > secure mode, so Linux kernel has to call SMC and trap to
> > ARM-Trusted-Firmware to do it, in this case, is cpufreq-dt still
> > suitable to support it? I saw cpufreq-dt driver will do CPU clock/voltage
> scaling directly.
> 
> What about moving those SMC calls to the clk-driver, then it wouldn't matter
> to the cpufreq driver on how the clock is getting changed.

OK, thanks, I will have a try and resend the patch.

Anson.

> 
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> viresh