On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 12:45 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 12:34 +0100, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > On 9 October 2012 16:24, Pawel Moll <pawel.m...@arm.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 11:42 +0100, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote: > > >> Robin raised a valid point that this driver is TC2 specific and bL is > > >> not appropriate name for it including the file name(my bad choice at > > >> first). > > > > > > Just to be painfully precise ;-) I must say it's not TC2 specific, but > > > V2P-CA15_A7 specific. TC2 == Test Chip 2, also known as Garuda. The SPC > > > that the driver talks to is _not_ a part of the TC2, it's a separate > > > component of the V2P-CA15_A7 core tile (HBI0249). > > > > Why is it CA15_A7 specific? It looks to me like a simple cpufreq > > driver for vexpress board, that may support any coretile... Single > > cluster, multicluster (big LITTLE or otherwise)... > > > > What's in there for CA15 or A7 ? > > It's not about A15 or A7, but about V2P-CA15_A7 ;-) That's what the "TC2 > core tile" is officially called. > > The driver talks to firmware running on the microcontroller on the tile. > No other VE tile (so far) has similar interface available, so it is > specific for this particular core tile. > > Now, _if_ some of future boards share the same interface for the power > management firmware (and the _if_ is a big _IF_ ;-), it still wouldn't > be TC2-specific (because the future boards will not use TC2). So maybe > we want to call it something like "vexpress-spc" (or whatever three > letter acronym we use here ;-) and hope for the best?
I've gone with this "vexpress-spc" name for the coming Linaro release. -- Tixy _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
