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From: marek.vasut@gmail.com (Marek Vasut)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Openpxa-users] Colibri PXA320 Power management question
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 04:31:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009040431.49798.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7FC606.20904@compulab.co.il>

Dne ?t 2. z??? 2010 17:43:02 Mike Rapoport napsal(a):
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:41:57PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >> Mark Brown wrote:
> >>> The expectation in Linux is that voltage scaling will be done in
> >>> software using cpufreq rather than autonomously by the CPU.
> >> 
> >> PXA3xx has ability to automatically control certain regulators
> >> (almost) without software intervention. Setting the bits Yuri is
> >> talking about should enable CPU initiated i2c transactions upon
> >> frequency scaling events.
> > 
> > Yes, exactly - what I'm saying is that Linux is set up to use cpufreq
> > rather than rely on the built in stuff.
> 
> There's no contradiction here. The PXA3XX cpufreq implementation could
> trigger automatic voltage scaling.

Considering the CPU and the regulator are compatible and you wont fry the CPU. 
In that case, you use cpufreq indeed.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-04  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-12 10:02 Colibri PXA320 Power management question Yuri Ludkevich
2010-08-14  6:53 ` [Openpxa-users] " Marek Vasut
2010-08-15  2:06   ` Eric Miao
2010-08-15  9:13     ` Igor Grinberg
2010-08-15  9:16       ` Eric Miao
2010-09-02 14:22 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-02 14:41   ` Mike Rapoport
2010-09-02 15:27     ` Mark Brown
2010-09-02 15:43       ` Mike Rapoport
2010-09-04  2:31         ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2010-09-06 10:13         ` Mark Brown
2010-09-06 11:06           ` Mike Rapoport
2010-09-06 11:09           ` Eric Miao
2010-09-06 11:30             ` Mark Brown
2010-09-06 11:42               ` Haojian Zhuang

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