Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] cpufreq: qcom-nvmem: Add MSM8909

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 10/18/23 10:06, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> When the MSM8909 SoC is used together with the PM8909 PMIC the primary
> power supply for the CPU (VDD_APC) is shared with other components to
> the SoC, namely the VDD_CX power domain typically supplied by the PM8909
> S1 regulator. This means that all votes for necessary performance states
> go via the RPM firmware which collects the requirements from all the
> processors in the SoC. The RPM firmware then chooses the actual voltage
> based on the performance states ("corners"), depending on calibration
> values in the NVMEM and other factors.
>
> The MSM8909 SoC is also sometimes used with the PM8916 or PM660 PMIC.
> In that case there is a dedicated regulator connected to VDD_APC and
> Linux is responsible to do adaptive voltage scaling using CPR (similar
> to the existing code for QCS404).
>
> This difference can be described in the device tree, by either assigning
> the CPU a power domain from RPMPD or from the CPR driver.
>
> Describe this using "perf" as generic power domain name, which is also
> used already for SCMI based platforms.
>
> Also add a simple function that reads the speedbin from a NVMEM cell
> and sets it as-is for opp-supported-hw. The actual bit position can be
> described in the device tree without additional driver changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan.gerhold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Acked-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxx>

Konrad