Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: x1e80100: Add '#cooling-cells' for CPU nodes

From: Manivannan Sadhasivam
Date: Mon Dec 08 2025 - 00:13:58 EST


On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 07:01:30PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 12:27:03PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Enable passive cooling for CPUs in the X1E80100 SoC by adding the
> > '#cooling-cells' property. This will allow the OS to mitigate the CPU
> > power dissipation with the help of SCMI DVFS.
>
> #cooling-cells isn't enough, the devices need to be listed in the
> thermal maps.
>

Not strictly required unless the cooling device and trip points are wired in DT.
But I don't want to do that yet, and just expose the cooling devices to
userspace so that I can experiment with something like thermal-daemon.

- Mani

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