[PATCH 12/18] ARM: OMAP3: PM: remove access to PRM_VOLTCTRL register

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Mar 26 14:40:00 EDT 2014


* Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [140326 01:04]:
> On 03/26/2014 12:36 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >* Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [140304 08:23]:
> >>There is a solitary write to this register every wakeup from off-mode,
> >>which isn't doing anything, so remove it.
> >
> >Argh, this chunk of code is for sure the the thing that's blocking all
> >the voltage scaling for idle modes that twl4030 is supposed to do!
> >
> >AFAIK we must have AUTO_SLEEP, AUTO_RET and AUTO_OFF bits set in
> >PRM_VOLTCTRL for twl4030 to scale anything. They must be set if we're
> >scaling over I2C4 or using the pins as triggers. Unless these bits
> >are set, VC won't send any SLEEP, RET or OFF commands.
> >
> >Looks like we're not even set these bits anywhere like we should?
> >
> >I think we should enabled these bits in vc.c init, and never clear?
> 
> The bits should be set according to the target sleep mode I believe,
> e.g. for retention we should set only AUTO_RET, and for off-mode
> AUTO_OFF. You can't have AUTO_OFF enabled if you are going to
> retention only as far as I recall, this potentially caused some
> problems.

OK. So it seems that the idle code needs to constantly modify this
register based on the idle mode. Any ideas how the idle code is going
to update this register? Register a callback using platform_data?

Regards,

Tony



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