Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/3] Broadcom AVS CPUfreq driver
From: Markus Mayer
Date: Fri Oct 07 2016 - 19:22:27 EST
My apologies. Please ignore this e-mail. Proper series coming up shortly.
Regards,
-Markus
On 7 October 2016 at 16:20, Markus Mayer <mmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This series contains the CPUfreq driver for Broadcom SoCs that use "AVS
> Firmware" for voltage and frequency scaling. All voltage and frequency
> transitions are performed by the firmware and are therefore hidden from
> Linux.
>
> The driver provides a standard CPUfreq interface to other kernel
> components and to userland on the one hand and communicates with the
> AVS co-processor on the other.
>
> Communication between the two processors is via shared mailbox
> registers and interrupts (ARM -> AVS to tell the firmware that there is
> a command to process and AVS -> ARM to tell the driver that a command
> finished executing).
>
> lkml.org seems to be down for me. Here are patchwork links to the original
> series:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9278119/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9278121/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9278127/
>
> Changes from v1:
> - renamed binding document
> - rewrote the introduction of the binding document
> - created a new driver documentation file that contains Linux specific
> information that was previously part of the binding document
> - renamed the driver (and related config options) to include a reference
> to "STB", since this implementation is primarily intended for use on
> set-top boxes
> - improved comments
> - updated function __map_region()
> - updated struct private_data
> - added code to unmap memory regions in the error and exit paths
> - added new sysfs property to report frequency directly from the
> co-processor register
>
> Markus Mayer (3):
> dt: cpufreq: brcm: New binding document for brcmstb-avs-cpufreq
> cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: AVS CPUfreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs
> cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add debugfs support
>
> Documentation/cpu-freq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.txt | 27 +
> .../bindings/cpufreq/brcm,stb-avs-cpu-freq.txt | 77 ++
> MAINTAINERS | 9 +
> drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm | 10 +
> drivers/cpufreq/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c | 1026 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 1150 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/cpu-freq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.txt
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/brcm,stb-avs-cpu-freq.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c
>
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