Subject: [PATCH V4 1/3] OPP: Redefine bindings to overcome shortcomings

From: [email-masked] (Felipe Balbi)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:19:45 -0500

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:37:59PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Current OPP (Operating performance point) DT bindings are proven to be
> insufficient at multiple instances.
> 
> The shortcomings we are trying to solve here:
> 
> - Getting clock sharing information between CPUs. Single shared clock vs
>   independent clock per core vs shared clock per cluster.
> 
> - Support for specifying current levels along with voltages.
> 
> - Support for multiple regulators.
> 
> - Support for turbo modes.
> 
> - Other per OPP settings: transition latencies, disabled status, etc.?
> 
> - Expandability of OPPs in future.
> 
> This patch introduces new bindings "operating-points-v2" to get these problems

operating-points-v2 is kinda awkward, how about
operating-points-extended, much like interrupts-extended ?

Other than this, I very much like the new approach.

Regards

-- 
balbi
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