Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: thermal: mediatek: Make resets optional for MT8196

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:59:23 +0200

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 12:52:29PM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Both LVTS-AP and LVTS-MCU may be shared with SoC-internal MCUs
> running some sort of firmware that checks thermals in order to
> scale frequency, or to take action for critical SoC thermal
> protection - and this is seen on most MT8196 boards.
> 
> Make resets optional, as doing a HW reset on such boards will
> result in either an immediate thermal protect shutdown or in
> a rather important and usually permanent system slowdown.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .../bindings/thermal/mediatek,lvts-thermal.yaml     | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>

Best regards,
Krzysztof