Premi, Sanjeev had written, on 01/28/2010 09:21 AM, the following:
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[mailto:linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Murray
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:53 PM
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Subject: omap3: pm: AVS enabled by default?
Hello,
I noticed that Smart Reflex AVS is not turned on by default - and must
be manually enabled from user-land through the sr_vddX_autocomp
controls.
Are there any plans to enable this by default, or perhaps via
a KConfig
option in the future?
I ask because the longer a boot time, the longer the device is running
without AVS (assuming it's not enabled by a boot loader) - and on a
mobile device with frequent power on/offs this duration could add up
leading to a potential missed power saving? I appreciate the
saving may
be small - but would it be worthwhile?
you may want to consider upstart and move most of your drivers into
modules rather than a static binary ;)
But your point is valid, some folks prefer to have AVS disabled in the
system during boot for couple of reasons I know of:
a) during system boot, OMAP is busy, avs comes into play during
late_init and not early_init as it needs pm configurations, pmic setup
all other stuff to be done.. so the delay between late_init and
completion of boot is pretty minimal
b) few folks would like to start the boot without avs and enable it from
userspace applications to allow debug of issues when avs is enabled
(even if avs is enabled during that little time it is on.. they'd want
to avoid it)..
Some of the initial silicon revisions did not have the efuse data to
Required for AVS. I believe AVS is disabled - by default - to ensure
compatibility with these devices.
this should not be a problem - SR driver is smart and will look at it's
data structures and say - oh, this device does not have efuse, so it
will crib back saying - good try - but sorry, I cant enable avs at this
OPP frequency because I dont have efuse data to program the SR AVS module..
All said and done, there are configurations which enable avs by default
at boot - the corresponding variable is initialized as one in thier
private trees..
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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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