Re: [PATCH 5/9] TWL4030: read and write module ISRs to clear them at init

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hello Peter,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:34:52PM -0600, ext Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > TWL4030 interrupt status register bits can be cleared in one of two ways:
> > either by reading from the register, or by writing a 1 to the
> > appropriate bit(s) in the register.  This behavior can be altered at any
> > time by the <twlmodule>_SIH_CTRL.COR register bit ("clear-on-read").
> > 
> > twl4030-core.c does not touch these *_SIH_CTRL registers during boot,
> > and the TWL4030 TRM is deeply confused as to whether COR=1 means that
> > the registers are cleared on reads, or cleared on writes.
> > 
> 
> That's true. But reality is fortunately not so confused :) COR=1 means
> all IRQs are acknowledged when reading the corresponding ISR. COR=0
> means you need to write 1 to the bits in the ISR for interrupts you want to
> acknowledge.
> 
> Hope this helps,

thanks very much, it does help.  Ought to save a little time on boot.  
Will post an updated set tomorrow...
  

- Paul
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Arm (vger)]     [ARM Kernel]     [ARM MSM]     [Linux Tegra]     [Linux WPAN Networking]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Maemo Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Trails]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux