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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Nico Coesel <ncoesel@DEALogic.nl>
Subject: Re: FW: Alchemy power managment code.
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:36:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ECD828.8090600@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080327223134.GA26997@linux-mips.org>

Hello.

Ralf Baechle wrote:

>> >    The TOY cpunter 0 clockevent driver is also need to be written for

>>>the recent kernel as CP0 timer stops ticking after wait insn is executed 
>>>-- see arch/mips/au1000/common/time.c...

>>   And here's found another possible issue with Alchemy PM -- the CP0 
>>counter counts at unpredictable frequency in idle state (after executing 
>>"wait"), so the MIPS clocksource will probably be unstable?

> Correct - and cevt-r4k won't be usable either.  I guess that means you
> leave the user the choice between either these two or using wait.  Not
> nice but ...

    The Alchemy code doesn't even try to use CP0 counter when CONFIG_PM=y if 
you look into arch/mips/au1000/common/time.c... or at least it didn't before 
Atsushi removed do_fast_pm_gettimeoffset().

>   Ralf

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-13 16:16 FW: Alchemy power managment code Nico Coesel
2008-03-13 16:16 ` Nico Coesel
2008-03-13 16:45 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-24 14:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-24 14:31   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-27 22:31     ` Ralf Baechle
2008-03-28 11:36       ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2008-03-28 13:32         ` Ralf Baechle
2008-03-28 14:25         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-03-28 15:14           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-26 16:31 ` FW: " Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-27 22:32   ` Ralf Baechle
2008-03-28 11:39     ` Sergei Shtylyov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-27 13:46 Nico Coesel
2008-03-27 13:46 ` Nico Coesel
2008-03-27 16:41 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-27 22:33 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-03-28  8:21 Nico Coesel
2008-03-28  8:21 ` Nico Coesel

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