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Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply

From Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply
Date 2015-08-03 11:30 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 10:37:51AM +0200, Timo Sigurdsson wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> Julian Calaby schrieb am 03.08.2015 01:35:
> >> sun7i-a20.dtsi contains an cpufreq operating point at 0.9 volts. Most A20
> >> boards
> >> (or all?), however, do not allow the voltage to go below 1.0V. Thus, raise the
> >> voltage for the lowest operating point to 1.0V so all boards can actually use
> >> it.
> > 
> > Surely it wouldn't be added here if some could supply 0.9v.
> 
> Maybe. I just know some boards don't (e.g. Cubieboard 2, Cubietruck, BananaPi)
> and don't know of any that does. But that's not my point. I think that a common
> minimum operating point, defined on the SOC level, should be defined in a way
> that works on all boards.

All of them can supply it. The DCDC2 regulator they use for the CPU
can go as low as 0.7V. The question is whether the CPU itself can work
at such a low voltage. And the operating limits for the CPU is
documented to be 1V - 1.4V. Anything else is either over or
underclocking, which might or might not work on individual SoCs. So
it's not something that we're going to support.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Timo Sigurdsson <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de> - 2015-08-02 21:30 +0200
  Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 01:40 +0200
    Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2015-08-03 04:40 +0200
      Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 06:30 +0200
        Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2015-08-03 06:30 +0200
        Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply "Timo Sigurdsson" <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de> - 2015-08-03 11:10 +0200
          Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-08-03 11:40 +0200
            Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 11:40 +0200
            Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply "Timo Sigurdsson" <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de> - 2015-08-04 11:00 +0200
        Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-08-03 11:30 +0200
    Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply "Timo Sigurdsson" <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de> - 2015-08-03 10:40 +0200
      Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-08-03 11:30 +0200
    Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage  for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-08-03 11:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20  to a level all boards can supply Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-08-03 11:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sunxi: Raise minimum CPU voltage for sun7i-a20 to a level all boards can supply "Timo Sigurdsson" <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de> - 2015-08-04 10:40 +0200

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