Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm64: dts: allwinner: h6: Add CPU Operating Performance Points table

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:09:51PM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 9:56 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:56:03AM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> > > How about to implement a thermal driver that is not integrated with
> > > gpadc ï
> > >
> > > GPADC on soc is rarely used now.
> >
> > You mean GPADC in general, or the gpadc driver in particular?
> > Otherwise, yes, having a driver for the thermal sensor in the H6
> > sounds like a good plan for thermal throttling, but I don't see it as
> > a dependency for that whole series.
>
> At present, sunxi's thermal driver is integrated with the gpadc driver.
> I have a idea to implement the thermal driver alone. I haven't started yet,
> and it may take a while to do it.
> 
> How about the plan to implement a thermal drive alone and put i
> under drivers/thermal?

The Thermal Sensor is basically a stripped down GPADC, which is why it
would make sense to have a single driver.

There was a pending series doing this that could be a good idea to
improve and merge:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/30/729

Maxime

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