[Cc Viresh]

On 29/05/2021 19:09, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

All NVIDIA Tegra30 SoCs have a two-channel on-chip sensor unit which
monitors temperature and voltage of the SoC. Sensors control CPU frequency
throttling, which is activated by hardware once preprogrammed temperature
level is breached, they also send signal to Power Management controller to
perform emergency shutdown on a critical overheat of the SoC die. Add
driver for the Tegra30 TSENSOR module, exposing it as a thermal sensor
and a cooling device.

IMO it does not make sense to expose the hardware throttling mechanism
as a cooling device because it is not usable anywhere from the thermal
framework.

Moreover, that will collide with the thermal / cpufreq framework
mitigation (hardware sets the frequency but the software thinks the freq
is different), right ?

The hardware limiter should let know the cpufreq framework about the
frequency change.

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/8/1792

May be post the sensor without the hw limiter for now and address that
in a separate series ?

  -- Daniel

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