Re: [PATCH v2] cpuidle/powernv : Add Description for cpuidle state

From: Akshay Adiga
Date: Mon Jun 04 2018 - 07:45:18 EST


On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:04:14PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Is this a new property ? I'm not fan of adding yet another of those
> silly arrays.
>
> I would say this is the right time now to switch over to a node per
> state instead, as we discussed with Vaidy.

I posted the node based device tree here :
skiboot patch : https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/923120/
kernel patch : https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/30/1146

Do you have any inputs for this design ?

>
> Additionally, while doing that, we can provide the versioning mechanism
> I proposed so we can deal with state specific issues and erratas.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>