On Thursday, June 22, 2017 02:25:19 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 12/06/2017 20:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, June 12, 2017 05:55:10 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote: > >> Some hardware have clusters with different idle states. The current code > >> does > >> not support this and fails as it expects all the idle states to be > >> identical. > >> > >> Because of this, the Mediatek mtk8173 had to create the same idle state > >> for a > >> big.Little system and now the Hisilicon 960 is facing the same situation. > >> > >> Solve this by simply assuming the multiple driver will be needed for all > >> the > >> platforms using the ARM generic cpuidle driver which makes sense because > >> of the > >> different topologies we can support with a single kernel for ARM32 or > >> ARM64. > >> > >> Every CPU has its own driver, so every single CPU can specify in the DT the > >> idle states. > >> > >> This simple approach allows to support the future dynamIQ system, current > >> SMP > >> and HMP. > >> > >> Tested on: > >> - 96boards: Hikey 620 > >> - 96boards: Hikey 960 > >> - 96boards: dragonboard410c > >> - Mediatek 8173 > >> > >> Cc: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <[email protected]> > >> Tested-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]> > >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]> > > > > There seems to have been quite some discussion regarding this one and I'm > > not > > sure about the resolution of it. > > > > I'd feel more comfortable with an ACK or Reviewed-by from Sudeep or Lorenzo > > here. > > > Hi Rafael, > > just a gentle reminder, Sudeep acked the patch.
Yes, I'll get to it later today, most likely. Thanks, Rafael
