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From: mike@compulab.co.il (Mike Rapoport)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Colibri PXA320 Power management question
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:43:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7FC606.20904@compulab.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100902152705.GC5809@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>

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.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02 15:43 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 [this message]
2010-09-04  2:31         ` [Openpxa-users] " Marek Vasut
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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