Commit 4c0a59e1 authored by Amit Kucheria's avatar Amit Kucheria Committed by Rob Herring

Documentation: arm: Link idle-states binding to "enable-method" property

The "enable-method" property for cpu nodes needs to be "psci" for CPU
idle management to be setup correctly.

Add a note to the binding documentation to this effect to make it
obvious.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
parent 57374808
...@@ -241,9 +241,13 @@ processor idle states, defined as device tree nodes, are listed. ...@@ -241,9 +241,13 @@ processor idle states, defined as device tree nodes, are listed.
- "psci" - "psci"
# On ARM 32-bit systems this property is optional # On ARM 32-bit systems this property is optional
The nodes describing the idle states (state) can only be defined within the This assumes that the "enable-method" property is set to "psci" in the cpu
idle-states node, any other configuration is considered invalid and therefore node[6] that is responsible for setting up CPU idle management in the OS
must be ignored. implementation.
The nodes describing the idle states (state) can only be defined
within the idle-states node, any other configuration is considered invalid
and therefore must be ignored.
=========================================== ===========================================
4 - state node 4 - state node
...@@ -697,3 +701,6 @@ cpus { ...@@ -697,3 +701,6 @@ cpus {
[5] Devicetree Specification [5] Devicetree Specification
https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/ https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/
[6] ARM Linux Kernel documentation - Booting AArch64 Linux
Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
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