Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:34:30 -0700 | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 2/8] ARM: cpuidle: Add a cpuidle ops structure to be used for DT |
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On 03/20, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > The current state of the different cpuidle drivers is the different PM > operations are passed via the platform_data using the platform driver > paradigm. > > This approach allowed to split the low level PM code from the arch specific > and the generic cpuidle code. > > Unfortunately there are complaints about this approach as, in the context of the > single kernel image, we have multiple drivers loaded in memory for nothing and > the platform driver is not adequate for cpuidle. > > This patch provides a common interface via cpuidle ops for all new cpuidle > driver and a definition for the device tree. > > It will allow with the next patches to a have a common definition with ARM64 > and share the same cpuidle driver. > > The code is optimized to use the __init section intensively in order to reduce > the memory footprint after the driver is initialized and unify the function > names with ARM64. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> > Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Thanks for moving to OF tables. We can merge smp ops and cpuidle ops later on.
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
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