Re: Nokia N900 retention mode in v4.6, camera buttons fun

Pavel Machek
2016-04-21T21:28:13Z

Hi!

> > CONFIG_HSI breaks power management completely, so power management
> > with modem will be another topic.
>
> Sebastian, any idea why power management does not work for HSI?
>
> > > > > In the meantime, I found what is causing the rention mode to break for
> > > > > me: CONFIG_HSI (aka wireless modem support). With HSI off, it seems to work.
> > > > >
> > > > > I still get problems with the camera button, in config similar to
> > > > > defconfig. For some reason, I'm even getting (autorepeating) ^@ on
> > > > > console. As long as I hold camera button down, I even get it into off
> > > > > mode for brief period.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, if I turn off CONFIG_KEYBOARD_GPIO, I get it into off
> > > > mode... once per screen blank, for about a second. (Does CONFIG_KEYBOARD_GPIO also cause
> > > > problems for you?)
> > > >
> > > > Any idea why it enters off mode only once after each screenblank?
> > >
> > > After disabling CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, loading the LCD modules, and
> > > blanking the screen, my n900 hits off mode just fine about once
> > > a second. Sounds like you still have some extra devices enabled
> > > causing it.
> >
> > I checked again... also with vanilla 4.6-rc2 to double check... same effect.
> >
> > Aha, got it... cat-ing /sys/kernel/debug/pm_debug/count breaks the
> > off mode. If I don't do that (tm), it seems to work way better.
>
> So what is result? Is power management working for CONFIG_KEYBOARD_GPIO?

camera and unlock button GPIOs seem to break the powermanagement,
too. I disabled it for now.

Next hint I got from Sebastian was that I may need to enable power
management in /sys.

pavel@n900:/my/tui/ofone$ cat
/sys/devices/platform/68000000.ocp/48058000.ssi-controller/power/runtime_status
active
pavel@n900:/my/tui/ofone$ cat
/sys/devices/platform/68000000.ocp/48058000.ssi-controller/power/autosuspend_delay_ms
cat:
/sys/devices/platform/68000000.ocp/48058000.ssi-controller/power/autosuspend_delay_ms:
Input/output error
root@n900:/my/tui/ofone# cat
/sys/devices/platform/68000000.ocp/48058000.ssi-controller/power/control
auto

I could not get it to sleep :-(.

Best regards,