Re: [PATCH v2] dt: psci: Update DT bindings to support hierarchical PSCI states

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 14:42:41 EST


On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 03:40:37PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> From: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Update DT bindings to represent hierarchical CPU and CPU domain idle states
> for PSCI. Also update the PSCI examples to clearly show how flattened and
> hierarchical idle states can be represented in DT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Addressed comments from Rob.
> - Updated some labels in the examples to get more consistency.
>
> For your information, I have picked up the work from Lina Iyer around the so
> called CPU cluster idling series [1,2] and I working on new versions. However,
> I decided to post the updates to the PSCI DT bindings first, as they will be
> needed to be agreed upon before further changes can be done to the PSCI firmware
> driver.
>
> Note, these bindings have been discussed over and over again, at LKML, but
> especially also at various Linux conferences, like LPC and Linaro Connect. We
> finally came to a conclusion and the changes we agreed upon, should be reflected
> in this update.
>
> Of course, it's a while ago since the latest discussions, but hopefully people
> don't have too hard time to remember.
>
> Kind regards
> Uffe
>
> [1]
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg566200.html
>
> [2]
> https://lwn.net/Articles/716300/
>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.txt | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 152 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'd like to see some R-by by some of the ARM folks too.

Rob