[PATCH 13/25] OMAP4: PM: Add WakeupGen module as OMAP gic_arch_extn

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Sep 14 13:18:00 EDT 2011


* Santosh <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> [110914 09:40]:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2011 10:38 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >* Santosh<santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>  [110914 09:16]:
> >
> >Thanks for the clarification. It seems to me the spec is most likely
> >wrong as we've had the GIC working for over two years now without
> >doing anything with the wakeup gen registers :)
> >
> It's working because CPU clockdomain are never put under HW
> supervised mode and they are kept in force wakeup. Clock-domain
> never idles on mainline code. PM series will put the clock-domains
> under HW supervison as needed to achieve any low power states and
> then all sorts of corner cases will come out.

But again the wakeup gen triggers only do something when hitting
idle. There should be no use for them during runtime, right?

Tony



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