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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, khilman@ti.com, b-cousson@ti.com,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	s-sintes@ti.com, Moiz Sonasath <m-sonasath@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] 4460sdp/blaze/panda: hwmod: Prevent gpio1 reset during hwmod init
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 03:45:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110705104553.GF5783@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107050136120.4217@utopia.booyaka.com>

* Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> [110705 00:35]:
> Hi Tony
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > * Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> [110702 21:09]:
> > 
> > > Here are some options that come to mind:
> > > 
> > > 1. Wait until the driver runtime PM conversion is finished before doing 
> > >    anything.  In the meantime, boards with IP blocks that can't be reset 
> > >    - N810, TI 4460 boards - will have problems.
> > > 
> > > 2. Merge the lazy/unused hwmod reset code, but prevent IP blocks 
> > >    controlled by non-runtime PM drivers from being reset.  We'd have to
> > >    maintain a list of these somewhere, perhaps in some common code called 
> > >    by board file init_machine code.  Then we'd need to redact that list as 
> > >    new driver runtime PM conversions complete.
> > > 
> > > 3. Merge the lazy/unused hwmod reset code, but disable the unused hwmod 
> > >    reset code until the driver runtime PM conversion is finished.  This
> > >    could cause problems with driverless devices that are left configured
> > >    by bootloaders or ROM code, and that problem would reoccur for each new
> > >    OMAP chip.
> > > 
> > > Do you have a preference as to which approach to take?
> > 
> > I think #3 above is the safest option. How about make it only happen with
> > hwmod_reset=1 cmdline with 0 being the default value?
> 
> With the patch that was posted, that would disable all reset.  Probably we 
> want to reset devices that have drivers with PM runtime support?

Can't we always reset the registered hwmods automatically one at a time when
omap_device_build is called?

> That would allow drivers to assume that they are starting from consistent 
> device state.  It also should prevent some power management problems 
> that are dependent on particular bootloaders.   How about if we add a 
> second parameter, hwmod_reset_unused?  The default could be 'no' and then 
> only devices with PM runtime-enabled drivers would be reset first.

Yes I think hwmod_reset_unsed would be a better name, but do we actually
need any other reset option in addition to that?

TOny

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-01  2:07 [PATCH 0/7] OMAP4: Add 4460 base support Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:07 ` [PATCH 1/7] OMAP: ID: introduce chip detection for OMAP4460 Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:07   ` [PATCH 2/7] OMAP4: ID: add omap_has_feature for max freq supported Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:07     ` [PATCH 3/7] OMAP4: PRCM: OMAP4460 specific PRM and CM register bitshifts Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:07       ` [PATCH 4/7] OMAP4: clocks: Update the clock tree with 4460 clock nodes Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:07         ` [PATCH 5/7] OMAP4: powerdomain: Reuse on 4460 using CHIP_IS_44XX Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:08           ` [PATCH 6/7] OMAP4: clockdomain: " Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  2:08             ` [PATCH 7/7] 4460sdp/blaze/panda: hwmod: Prevent gpio1 reset during hwmod init Rajendra Nayak
2011-07-01  6:32               ` Tony Lindgren
2011-07-03  4:14                 ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-04  8:53                   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-07-05  7:40                     ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-05 10:45                       ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2011-07-05 21:47                         ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-06  6:47                           ` Tony Lindgren
2011-07-01  2:41     ` [PATCH 2/7] OMAP4: ID: add omap_has_feature for max freq supported Todd Poynor
2011-07-01  4:48       ` Aneesh V
2011-07-01  6:25   ` [PATCH 1/7] OMAP: ID: introduce chip detection for OMAP4460 Tony Lindgren
2011-07-01 10:15     ` Aneesh V
2011-07-01 16:31 ` [PATCH 0/7] OMAP4: Add 4460 base support Kevin Hilman
2011-07-01 16:36 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-07-01 16:40   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-07-01 17:00     ` Rajendra Nayak

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