[PATCH 5/8] ARM: PXA: Z2: Add poweroff function

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 17:08:58 EST 2011


On Friday 11 March 2011 22:53:11 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> On Friday 11 March 2011 23:39:03 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Friday 11 March 2011 11:23:40 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com>
> > 
> > This looks bogus to me as you cannot power down the thing. Besides, where
> > do you resume to from this so-called "powerdown" ? Since the bootloader
> > will consider it as a legitimate deepsleep resume.
> 
> It eats only 0.7mA in deepsleep, but 6.7mA in sleep (PXA2xx has 2 sleep
> modes), so deepsleep is pretty close to poweroff.

So the power to the CPU is actually cut? It isn't, right ?

> Bootloader behaves
> correctly (at least u-boot binary I'm using)

Mine (I use mainline uboot) doesn't.

> - it starts boot process
> after deepsleep. Looks like hardware is somehow configured to disable
> almost everything in deepsleep mode, RAM content is not preserved anyway,
> so we can't resume properly.

PSPR is preserved though, right ? So you end up in a really deep crap I guess ?



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