[PATCH 06/12] arm: omap3: am35x: Add full PWRDM_POWER_INACTIVE support

Paul Walmsley paul at pwsan.com
Wed Apr 11 17:08:54 EDT 2012


Hi

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Jean Pihet wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Mark A. Greer <mgreer at animalcreek.com> wrote:
> > From: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer at animalcreek.com>
> >
> > The am35x family of SoCs only support PWRDM_POWER_ON
> > and PWRDM_POWER_INACTIVE power states. This causes
> > an issue in some areas of the OMAP3 power-related
> > code because of assumptions that PWRDM_POWER_RET
> > and/or PWRDM_POWER_OFF are always valid states.
> >
> > To get am35x SoCs to work properly, add missing support
> > for PWRDM_POWER_INACTIVE and remove assumptions that
> > PWRDM_POWER_RET and PWRDM_POWER_OFF are always valid states.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer at animalcreek.com>
> 
> I just posted a patch set '[RFC/PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: OMAP2+: PM:
> introduce the power domains functional states' [1] which I think
> should be used to base your patches on. This patch set introduces
> functional states for the power domains power ans logic states, and
> the conversion functions between the internal power and logic states
> and the functional states.
> 
> I would be glad to help on the AM35x support for the functional states.

Since it might take a while for the functional powerstate code to go 
upstream, if Mark wants to do this, I'd suggest that he split the
powerdomain-specific patches off from the rest of his series.  This should 
avoid blocking the rest of his patches on the infrastructure changes.

- Paul



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