[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] TI: DaVinci DA850 EVM: support passing maximum allowed cpu clock rate information to kernel

Nori, Sekhar nsekhar at ti.com
Fri Sep 24 07:10:15 CEST 2010


Hello All,

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:44:58, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> The TI DA850/OMAP-L138/AM18x EVM can be populated with devices
> having different maximum allowed CPU clock rating.
>
> The maximum clock the chip can support can only be determined from
> the label on the package (not software readable).
>
> Introduce a method to pass the maximum allowed clock rate information
> to kernel using ATAG_REVISION. The kernel uses this information to
> determine the maximum cpu clock rate reachable using cpufreq.
>
> Note that U-Boot itself does not set the CPU clock rate. The CPU
> clock is setup by a primary bootloader ("UBL"). The rate setup by
> UBL could be different from the maximum clock rate supported by the
> device.

Any more feedback on this patch? There are couple of kernel patches
which depend on this, that's why I ask.

Thanks,
Sekhar



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