[PATCH v3 3/8] drm/imagination: Use pwrseq for TH1520 GPU power management

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 05/06/2025 10:10, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>
>> Bart,
>> Given Krzysztof's valid concerns about the current name based
>> lookup in pwrseq_get() and the benefits of phandle based resource
>> linking in OF platforms: Would you be open to a proposal for extending
>> the pwrseq API to allow consumers to obtain a sequencer (or a specific
>> target sequence) via a phandle defined in their Device Tree node? For
>> instance, a consumer device could specify power-sequencer =
>> <&aon> and a new API variant could resolve this.
>>
> 
> I can be open to it all I want, but I bet Krzysztof won't be open to
> introducing anything like a power-sequencer device property in DT
> bindings. Simply because there's no such thing in the physical world.

Yep

> The concept behind the power sequencing framework was to bind
> providers to consumers based on existing links modelling real device
> properties (which a "power-sequencer" is not). I commented on it under
> another email saying that you already have a link here - the
> power-domains property taking the aon phandle. In your pwrseq

Exactly.


Best regards,
Krzysztof