[PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP3: PM: remove superfluous calls to pwrdm_clear_all_prev_pwrst()

Paul Walmsley paul at pwsan.com
Thu Feb 2 05:05:00 EST 2012


On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:

> Yes, we do have issue with below APIs for OMAP4 and onwards design
> because of the PRCM change.
> 
> pwrdm_clear_all_prev_pwrst
> pwrdm_*_mem_*
> 
> There use to be a single power state and memory state register till OMAP3
> at power domain level which can give you the logic and memory last test
> which is needed for OSWR.
> 
> On OMAP4, we have registers per modules and it becomes difficult to model
> this difference in APIs. Initially we tried to fix that with [1] and
> then later realized
> that's not going to work on OMAP4 + devices because of mentioned issue.

If the registers are per-module, it seems like the best place for those 
would be the hwmod layer.  Do you think that makes sense?  So, something 
like omap_hwmod_clear_all_prev_pwrst(), etc.?  Seems like that should be 
pretty efficient.


- Paul



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