From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 05/10] ARM: dt: tegra: add bindings of power management configurations for PMC
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:51:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513E43D9.9060109@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362654973.1890.28.camel@jlo-ubuntu-64.nvidia.com>
On 03/07/2013 04:16 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 02:54 +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 03/04/2013 04:40 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
>>> The PMC mostly controls the entry and exit of the system from different
>>> sleep modes. Different platform or system may have different configurations.
>>> The power management configurations of PMC is represented as some properties.
>>> The system needs to define the properties when the system supports deep sleep
>>> mode (i.e. suspend).
>>
>> One overall question here: For LP0, the idea is that the bootloader
>> provides the AVP boot code, puts it in RAM, passes the address to the
>> kernel, which then arranges for that code to be executed when the system
>> resumes from LP0. Why does the bootloader have to provide the code? Why
>> can't the AVP code simply be part of the kernel, just like e.g. the main
>> CPU's hotplug/secondary-power-on/power-saving reset vector is part of
>> the kernel? If we did that, it'd remove any need for bootloader support
>> for LP0 - the kernel would manage it entirely internally. That seems
>> much simpler.
>
> Yes, I had exactly the same question before.
I think the downstream discussion we had concluded that we need to keep
doing this, so we do need the lp0-vec property in DT.
The reason is that LP0 vector code is sometimes encrypted, and the
kernel can't perform that encryption, and hence can't provide the code
itself - the code must be given to the kernel.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-11 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 11:40 [PATCH 05/10] ARM: dt: tegra: add bindings of power management configurations for PMC Joseph Lo
2013-03-05 18:54 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-07 11:16 ` Joseph Lo
2013-03-11 20:51 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
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