[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] TI: DaVinci DA850 EVM: support passing device speed grade information to kernel

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Aug 17 20:46:18 CEST 2010


Dear Detlev Zundel,

In message <m2hbitgthb.fsf at ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> > You mean replace "maxspeed" by "cpuclk"? As I have noted a number of times
> > before, we are not passing the cpu clock speed here. That information kernel
> > directly reads from system registers. No need to pass it from U-Boot. The
> > example you are giving is not the right comparison.
> 
> Ok, then currently I would vote for "cpumaxspeed_mhz".

Even though its pretty descriptive - for the sake of consistency I
recommend to omit the "_mhz" part. Also, I feel that "clock" would be
more appropriate than "speed". And we should consider that we already
use "cpuclk" for very similar purposes in U-Boot.

Can we agree on "cpumaxclk" ?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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