Colibri PXA320 Power management question

Mike Rapoport mike at compulab.co.il
Thu Sep 2 11:43:02 EDT 2010


Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:41:57PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> The expectation in Linux is that voltage scaling will be done in
>>> software using cpufreq rather than autonomously by the CPU.
> 
>> PXA3xx has ability to automatically control certain regulators
>> (almost) without software intervention. Setting the bits Yuri is
>> talking about should enable CPU initiated i2c transactions upon
>> frequency scaling events.
> 
> Yes, exactly - what I'm saying is that Linux is set up to use cpufreq
> rather than rely on the built in stuff.

There's no contradiction here. The PXA3XX cpufreq implementation could trigger 
automatic voltage scaling.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



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