[PATCH 1/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am625: add standby cpu idle state

Nishanth Menon nm at ti.com
Wed Sep 9 04:22:11 PDT 2026


On 16:00-20260907, Scaria Kochidanadu wrote:
> 
> On 21/08/26 00:58, Kendall Willis wrote:
> > Allow the A53 cores to enter standby mode on the AM62x SoC.
> > The standby idle state enables the CPU cores to enter WFI through the
> > CPUIdle framework.

A very basic question: Default Idle in kernel *is* WFI. So, what kind of
savings are we seeing by explicitly enabling a cpuidle state that goes
to WFI and more importantly why?

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