Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-06 Thread MyungJoo Ham
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Cousson, Benoit b-cous...@ti.com wrote: [] Devices will indeed never care about voltage directly, but that will happen indirectly because of: - voltage domains dependency: Changing the MPU or IVA voltage domain might force the CORE voltage to increase its

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-06 Thread Paul Walmsley
Not that this is particularly related to DVFS, but: On Thu, 5 May 2011, Colin Cross wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Cousson, Benoit b-cous...@ti.com wrote: Colin Cross wrote: omap_hwmod is entirely omap specific, and any generic solution cannot be based on it. For the

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Colin Cross
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Cousson, Benoit b-cous...@ti.com wrote: (Cc folks with some DVFS interest) Hi Colin, On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Colin Cross wrote: Now that we are approaching a common clock management implementation, I was thinking it might be the right place to put a common

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Walmsley
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Cousson, Benoit wrote: Those kinds of exceptions are somehow the rules for an OMAP4 device. Most scalable devices are using some internal dividers or even internal PLL to control the scalable clock rate (DSS, HSI, MMC, McBSP... the OMAP4430 Data Manual [1] is providing

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Walmsley
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Colin Cross wrote: Imagine a chip where a clock can feed devices A, B, and C. If the devices are always clocked at the same rate, and can't gate their clocks, the minimum voltage that can be applied to a rail is determined ONLY by the rate of the clock. That's not so --

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Colin Cross
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Paul Walmsley p...@pwsan.com wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2011, Colin Cross wrote: Imagine a chip where a clock can feed devices A, B, and C.  If the devices are always clocked at the same rate, and can't gate their clocks, the minimum voltage that can be applied to a

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:50:52PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote: True, that was an oversimplificaiton. I meant the minimum voltage that scales with clock frequencies only depends on the clock frequency, not the device. Devices do need to be able to specify a higher minimum voltage, and the

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Cousson, Benoit
On 5/5/2011 8:11 AM, Colin Cross wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Cousson, Benoitb-cous...@ti.com wrote: (Cc folks with some DVFS interest) Hi Colin, On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Colin Cross wrote: Now that we are approaching a common clock management implementation, I was thinking it might

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-05 Thread Colin Cross
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Cousson, Benoit b-cous...@ti.com wrote: On 5/5/2011 8:11 AM, Colin Cross wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Cousson, Benoitb-cous...@ti.com  wrote: (Cc folks with some DVFS interest) Hi Colin, On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Colin Cross wrote: Now that we are

Re: Common clock and dvfs

2011-05-04 Thread Cousson, Benoit
(Cc folks with some DVFS interest) Hi Colin, On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Colin Cross wrote: Now that we are approaching a common clock management implementation, I was thinking it might be the right place to put a common dvfs implementation as well. It is very common for SoC manufacturers to provide