Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] thermal/drivers/tegra: Add driver for Tegra30 thermal sensor

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Wed Jun 16 2021 - 04:03:19 EST


+Vincent.

On 15-06-21, 22:32, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> IIUC, the cpufreq already should be prepared for the case where firmware
> may override frequency. Viresh, could you please clarify what are the
> possible implications of the frequency overriding?

The only implication is software would think hardware is running at
some other frequency, while it is not. Not sure if something may break
as a result of this.

The scheduler's view of CPUs will not be same though, i.e. scheduler
will see capacity as X, while in reality it has changed to Y.

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viresh