[PATCH 02/21] ARM: gic: Add functions to save and restore gic state

Colin Cross ccross at android.com
Sun Dec 5 18:52:18 EST 2010


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 03:08:49PM -0800, Colin Cross wrote:
>> on systems with idle states which power-gate the logic including
>> the gic, such as tegra, the gic distributor needs to be shut down
>> and restored on entry and exit from the architecture idle code
>
> This clashes with the GIC cleanups I've previously posted.

Yes, I mentioned that in the patch set overview.  I wanted to get the
concept out there for review, I'll fix it up and repost it once your
patches are final before submitting anything to the patch system.



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