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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>,
	Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@kernel.org>,
	"Joakim Zhang" <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>,
	"Shengjiu Wang" <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Shawn Guo" <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	"Sascha Hauer" <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	"Pengutronix Kernel Team" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	"Fabio Estevam" <festevam@gmail.com>,
	"NXP Linux Team" <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
	"Guido Günther" <agx@sigxcpu.org>,
	"Angus Ainslie (Purism)" <angus@akkea.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: imx8mm-kontron-n801x-som: do not allow to switch off buck2
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EDFF987-82C2-4B0A-9488-037D1BD4CA48@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEyMn7ZbJr0_2Phc2rW7sDYQu4AABWPZ1F7xDgaS5U7ha7iqzA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 17. September 2021 09:28:51 MESZ schrieb Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>:
>Hi Frieder,
>
>Am Mi., 15. Sept. 2021 um 14:09 Uhr schrieb Frieder Schrempf
><frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>:
>>
>> On 15.09.21 14:05, Michael Walle wrote:
>> > Am 2021-09-15 14:03, schrieb Heiko Thiery:
>> >> The buck2 output of the PMIC is the VDD core voltage of the cpu.
>> >> Switching off this will poweroff the CPU. Add the 'regulator-always-on'
>> >> property to avoid this.
>> >
>> > Mh, have this ever worked? Is there a commit which introduced a regression?
>>
>> Yes, this did work before, even without 'regulator-always-on'. I
>> currently don't understand why this is needed. The regulator is
>> referenced in the CPU nodes as 'cpu-supply'. This should be enough to
>> not disable it as long as the CPU is up.
>
>I rechecked that with 5.11, 5.10 and 5.9 and I see on all of them the
>same issue:
>
>[ 31.716031] vdd-5v: disabling
>[ 31.719032] rst-usb-eth2: disabling
>[ 31.722553] buck2: disabling
>
>While on that I tried to compare with other boards and see that they
>also have the cpu-voltage marked as "regulator-always-on". The only
>exception in dts/freescale is in imx8mq-librem5-devkit.dts [1] that
>has not set this property.
>
>I agree with you and don't understand why this is happening. Has
>anyone else an explanation?

Do you have the CPU frequency scaling driver enabled? 

-michael


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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>,
	Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@kernel.org>,
	"Joakim Zhang" <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>,
	"Shengjiu Wang" <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Shawn Guo" <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	"Sascha Hauer" <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	"Pengutronix Kernel Team" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	"Fabio Estevam" <festevam@gmail.com>,
	"NXP Linux Team" <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
	"Guido Günther" <agx@sigxcpu.org>,
	"Angus Ainslie (Purism)" <angus@akkea.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: imx8mm-kontron-n801x-som: do not allow to switch off buck2
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EDFF987-82C2-4B0A-9488-037D1BD4CA48@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEyMn7ZbJr0_2Phc2rW7sDYQu4AABWPZ1F7xDgaS5U7ha7iqzA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 17. September 2021 09:28:51 MESZ schrieb Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>:
>Hi Frieder,
>
>Am Mi., 15. Sept. 2021 um 14:09 Uhr schrieb Frieder Schrempf
><frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>:
>>
>> On 15.09.21 14:05, Michael Walle wrote:
>> > Am 2021-09-15 14:03, schrieb Heiko Thiery:
>> >> The buck2 output of the PMIC is the VDD core voltage of the cpu.
>> >> Switching off this will poweroff the CPU. Add the 'regulator-always-on'
>> >> property to avoid this.
>> >
>> > Mh, have this ever worked? Is there a commit which introduced a regression?
>>
>> Yes, this did work before, even without 'regulator-always-on'. I
>> currently don't understand why this is needed. The regulator is
>> referenced in the CPU nodes as 'cpu-supply'. This should be enough to
>> not disable it as long as the CPU is up.
>
>I rechecked that with 5.11, 5.10 and 5.9 and I see on all of them the
>same issue:
>
>[ 31.716031] vdd-5v: disabling
>[ 31.719032] rst-usb-eth2: disabling
>[ 31.722553] buck2: disabling
>
>While on that I tried to compare with other boards and see that they
>also have the cpu-voltage marked as "regulator-always-on". The only
>exception in dts/freescale is in imx8mq-librem5-devkit.dts [1] that
>has not set this property.
>
>I agree with you and don't understand why this is happening. Has
>anyone else an explanation?

Do you have the CPU frequency scaling driver enabled? 

-michael


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-17  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15 12:03 [PATCH] arm64: dts: imx8mm-kontron-n801x-som: do not allow to switch off buck2 Heiko Thiery
2021-09-15 12:03 ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-15 12:05 ` Michael Walle
2021-09-15 12:05   ` Michael Walle
2021-09-15 12:09   ` Frieder Schrempf
2021-09-15 12:09     ` Frieder Schrempf
2021-09-17  7:28     ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-17  7:28       ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-17  8:21       ` Michael Walle [this message]
2021-09-17  8:21         ` Michael Walle
2021-09-17  8:51         ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-17  8:51           ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-17 11:44       ` Lucas Stach
2021-09-17 11:44         ` Lucas Stach
2021-09-17 16:10         ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-17 16:10           ` Heiko Thiery
2021-09-20  7:31           ` Frieder Schrempf
2021-09-20  7:31             ` Frieder Schrempf
2021-09-20  7:43             ` Michael Walle
2021-09-20  7:43               ` Michael Walle
2021-09-20  8:10               ` Lucas Stach
2021-09-20  8:10                 ` Lucas Stach
2021-10-04 12:39 ` Shawn Guo
2021-10-04 12:39   ` Shawn Guo

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