Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: qcom,msm-uartdm: Vote for shared resources

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Nov 29 2023 - 09:58:51 EST


On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 10:43:32AM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> Document power-domains, operating-points-v2 and interconnects to allow
> making performance state votes for certain clock frequencies of the UART
> DM controller. The interconnect path to DRAM is needed when UART DM is
> used together with a DMA engine.
>
> Voting for these shared resources is necessary to guarantee performance
> with power management enabled. Otherwise these resources might run at
> minimal performance state which is not sufficient for certain UART
> baud rates.

I find the subject a bit strange because voting is a QCom term/concept
and somewhat outside the scope of the binding. The justification is
really just that the h/w has these resources. In any case,

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan.gerhold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/serial/qcom,msm-uartdm.yaml | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)