[PATCH 1/2] clk: mvebu: armada 370/XP add clock gating control provider for DT

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Sat Nov 17 08:54:35 EST 2012


> > What is the ddr clock for? Does bad things happen if you turn it off?
> > Kirkwood has a similar clock, dunit, which i decided not to export,
> > since when you turn it off, the whole SoC locks up.
> 
> Well of course if you code run in DDR then it could be a problem. But
> I think it could be useful to turn it off when going to suspend, it
> the DDR can do self-refresh. In this case it should be possible to run
> the code from SRAM or L2 Cache.

O.K. Just watch out for the lateinit call in the clock framework.

     Andrew



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