[PATCH 1/2] arm64: juno: Add APB registers and LEDs using syscon

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Mar 9 03:31:27 PDT 2015



On 27/02/15 14:06, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:07:42PM +0000, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau at arm.com> wrote:

[...]

> I'm mostly on your side, Linus, I was just looking for more use cases. Like I've said,
> most of our customers seem to keep the case closed (or at least that is what they tell
> us :) ) so I'm looking for explanations on how you use the LEDs (visual debugging for
> big-LITTLE was how Lorenzo was using them on TC2 for example).
>

Just to clarify:

IIUC all VExpress platforms has these LEDs on the motherboard. The one
you are referring is on the TC2 core-tile which are completely
controlled by the firmware. The main advantage of that was to know if
the OSPM request is accepted by the firmware.

But the LEDs being referred here are under OS control and gives only the
OS view of the state which is good enough but not exactly what we had on
TC2.

Regards,
Sudeep




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