On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:56:02PM +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > > ARM based platforms implement a variety of power management schemes that > > allow processors to enter idle states at run-time. > > The parameters defining these idle states vary on a per-platform basis > > forcing > > the OS to hardcode the state parameters in platform specific static tables > > whose size grows as the number of platforms supported in the kernel > > increases > > and hampers device drivers standardization. > > > > Therefore, this patch aims at standardizing idle state device tree bindings > > for > > ARM platforms. Bindings define idle state parameters inclusive of entry > > methods > > and state latencies, to allow operating systems to retrieve the > > configuration > > entries from the device tree and initialize the related power management > > drivers, paving the way for common code in the kernel to deal with idle > > states and removing the need for static data in current and previous kernel > > versions. > > > > Reviewed-by: Sebastian Capella <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <[email protected]> > > Excellent. > > Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Thanks Nico, there are still a couple of niggles to sort out (ie local timer state), but the bulk of the document should be complete I hope. I will postpone adding your (and Seb's) Reviewed-by until we have a final agreement if it is ok with you. Thanks ! Lorenzo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
