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From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: add support for blocking WFI when a device is active
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:55:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E14C12.5020105@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121230182829.30526.32914.stgit@dusk.lan>

Paul,

On Sunday 30 December 2012 11:58 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> Apparently, on some OMAPs, the MPU can't be allowed to enter WFI while
> certain peripherals are active.  It's not clear why, and it's likely
> that there is simply some other bug in the driver or integration code.
> But since the likelihood that anyone will have the time to track these
> problems down in the future seems quite small, we'll provide a
> flag, HWMOD_BLOCK_WFI, to mark these issues in the hwmod data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
> ---
This is more of question. If the limitation is w.r.t MPU power
state then shouldn't we just prevent the MPU power state rather
than blocking the WFI completely.

Can you please clarify if retaining MPU power state in ON can achieve
the same results ?

Regards
Santosh



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-31  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-30 18:28 [PATCH 0/3] ARM: OMAP2+: PM/hwmod: clean up some WFI-related code Paul Walmsley
2012-12-30 18:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP2xxx: PM: enter WFI via inline asm if CORE stays active Paul Walmsley
2012-12-31  8:27   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-02-06 21:21   ` Paul Walmsley
2013-02-12 15:28     ` Kevin Hilman
2012-12-30 18:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: add support for blocking WFI when a device is active Paul Walmsley
2012-12-31  8:25   ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2012-12-31 12:56     ` Paul Walmsley
2012-12-31 13:10       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-12-30 18:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: OMAP2420: hwmod data/PM: use hwmod to block WFI when I2C active Paul Walmsley

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