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Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Broadcom STB AVS CPUfreq driver

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  Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Broadcom STB AVS CPUfreq driver "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-11-14 01:30 +0100

#1520739 — Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Broadcom STB AVS CPUfreq driver

On Friday, November 04, 2016 10:00:19 AM Markus Mayer wrote:
> On 27 October 2016 at 14:05, Markus Mayer <code@mmayer.net> wrote:
> > From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
> >
> > This series contains the CPUfreq driver for Broadcom SoCs that use "AVS
> > Firmware" for voltage and frequency scaling. All voltage and frequency
> > transitions are performed by the firmware and are therefore hidden from
> > Linux.
> >
> > The driver provides a standard CPUfreq interface to other kernel
> > components and to userland on the one hand and communicates with the
> > AVS co-processor on the other.
> >
> > Communication between the two processors is via shared mailbox
> > registers and interrupts (ARM -> AVS to tell the firmware that there is
> > a command to process and AVS -> ARM to tell the driver that a command
> > finished executing).
> 
> Viresh, Rafael, are you ready to take this series? Rob gave his Ack
> for the DT binding.

Applied.

Thanks,
Rafael

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