[PATCH v2] cpuidle/powernv : Add Description for cpuidle state

Akshay Adiga akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jun 4 21:45:00 AEST 2018


On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:04:14PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Is this a new property ? I'm not fan of adding yet another of those
> silly arrays.
> 
> I would say this is the right time now to switch over to a node per
> state instead, as we discussed with Vaidy.

I posted  the node based device tree here :
skiboot patch :  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/923120/
kernel patch : https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/30/1146

Do you have any inputs for this design ?

> 
> Additionally, while doing that, we can provide the versioning mechanism
> I proposed so we can deal with state specific issues and erratas.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 



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