[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6qdl: correct PU regulator ramp delay

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Sat Jun 11 01:47:46 PDT 2022


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 06:08:23PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Contrary to what was believed at the time, the ramp delay of 150us is not
> plenty for the PU LDO with the default step time of 512 pulses of the 24MHz
> clock. Measurements have shown that after enabling the LDO the voltage on
> VDDPU_CAP jumps to ~750mV in the first step and after that the regulator
> executes the normal ramp up as defined by the step size control.
> 
> This means it takes the regulator between 360us and 370us to ramp up to
> the nominal 1.15V voltage for this power domain. With the old setting of
> the ramp delay the power up of the PU GPC domain would happen in the middle
> of the regulator ramp with the voltage being at around 900mV. Apparently
> this was enough for most units to properly power up the peripherals in the
> domain and execute the reset. Some units however, fail to power up properly,
> especially when the chip is at a low temperature. In that case any access
> to the GPU registers would yield an incorrect result with no way to recover
> from this situation.
> 
> Change the ramp delay to 380us to cover the measured ramp up time with a
> bit of additional slack.
> 
> Fixes: 40130d327f72 ("ARM: dts: imx6qdl: Allow disabling the PU regulator,
>                      add a enable ramp delay")
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>

Applied, thanks!



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