From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ezequiel Garcia Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: armada: read stable temp on Armada XP Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:17:41 -0300 Message-ID: <54EE11C5.8000307@free-electrons.com> References: <1423608615-6575-1-git-send-email-tylerwhall@gmail.com> <54EE009E.8070206@free-electrons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54EE009E.8070206@free-electrons.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gregory CLEMENT , Tyler Hall Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Zhang Rui , Eduardo Valentin List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On 02/25/2015 02:04 PM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: >> >> My conclusions about these registers are based on experimental data.= The >> documentation is very sparse, but the Thermal Manager Control and St= atus >> Register looks like the preferred register given the way it is laid = out in the >> public spec. >=20 > Ezequiel, >=20 > as you worked on this do you know why we used the Thermal Sensor Stat= us Register > instead of the Thermal Manager Control and Status Register ? > My first guess is that the giving the name of the registers the 1st o= ne made > more sens to use for a thermal sensor. >=20 Actually, we based this driver in the vendor bootloader. The specs were= n't of much use back then. --=20 Ezequiel Garc=C3=ADa, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com