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From: Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
Cc: <dinh.linux@gmail.com>, <atull@opensource.altera.com>,
	<dougthompson@xmission.com>, <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	<linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, altera: wrap edac pm with a CONFIG_PM
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 16:40:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5572174D.60804@opensource.altera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150605151559.GK3679@pd.tnic>

Hi Boris,

On 06/05/2015 10:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 08:49:15AM -0500, dinguyen@opensource.altera.com wrote:
>> From: Alan Tull <atull@opensource.altera.com>
>>
>> Suspend-to-RAM and EDAC support are mutually exclusive on
>> SOCFPGA.  If the EDAC is enabled, it will prevent the
>> platform from going into suspend.
>
> Btw, what is exactly the problem with EDAC being enabled and not being
> able to suspend? Is it a hardware issue?
>
> Because if it is sw one, we probably could change the EDAC core to
> accomodate power management. On x86 we don't need to do anything special
> to EDAC wrt PM though - we simply suspend.
>
> Thanks.
>

Yes, in our case, it is a hardware issue but I'm still gathering 
information.

The IRQ vectors for OCRAM reside on DDR and in Suspend-to-RAM mode we're 
executing out of OCRAM. If an ECC error occurs, we can't handle it so it 
was decided to make them mutually exclusive.

Thor


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05 13:49 [PATCH] EDAC, altera: wrap edac pm with a CONFIG_PM dinguyen
2015-06-05 15:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-05 21:40   ` Thor Thayer [this message]
2015-06-06  8:01     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-08  0:46       ` atull

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