Re: Nokia N900 OFF mode regression between v5.10 and v5.11

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

Hi,

* Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info> [211211 10:43]:
> The patch fixing thermal power management is: 
>  
> commit 5093402e5b449b64f7bbaa09057ce40a8f3c1484
> Author: Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri Sep 11 07:31:56 2020 -0500
> 
>     thermal: ti-soc-thermal: Enable addition power management
>     
>     The bandgap sensor can be idled when the processor is too, but it
>     isn't currently being done, so the power consumption of OMAP3
>     boards can elevated if the bangap sensor is enabled.
>     
>     This patch attempts to use some additional power management
>     to idle the clock to the bandgap when not needed.
> 
> Maybe there is something specific to the N900 which causes these
> issues? Well, I'll recheck on the boards I have.

My guess the issue is that omap3-thermal needs to constantly poll
for the registers to get the status and that blocks any deeper
idle states. For PM, probably omap3-thermal needs to be tagged with
status = "disabled" assuming there is some other external thermal
sensor. I'm also guessing that the old Nokia kernel never used the
integrated thermal sensor, might be worth checking though.

Regards,

Tony