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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>,
	mturquette@baylibre.com, sboyd@kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, lee.jones@linaro.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mikko.mutanen@fi.rohmeurope.com,
	heikki.haikola@fi.rohmeurope.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] mfd/regulator/clk: bd71837: ROHM BD71837 PMIC driver
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 16:41:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180530154133.GP6920@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180530125634.GE13528@localhost.localdomain>

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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 03:56:34PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:00:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The tradeoff with forced PWM mode is that the quality of regulation will
> > be a lot better, especially if the load changes suddenly (as things like
> > CPUs often do).  Most hardware that's at all current is able respond to
> > changes in load and switch modes automatically when it's appropriate,
> > except possibly in some very low power modes.

> Yes. The mode switching is automatic. But there is this control bit for
> disabling automatic mode switching and forcing the PWM. Problem with
> these 4 last bucks is just that if regulator is in PFM (and it may be
> if not forced to PWM - due to this automatic switching) then the voltage
> change is not behaving well.

That sounds like the mode switching just isn't very good and needs a bit
of help so forcing the mode is probably going to do the right thing.

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-30 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30  8:41 [PATCH v4 0/6] mfd/regulator/clk: bd71837: ROHM BD71837 PMIC driver Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30  8:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] mfd: bd71837: mfd driver for ROHM BD71837 PMIC Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30  8:42 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] mfd: bd71837: Devicetree bindings " Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31  3:01   ` Rob Herring
2018-05-31  7:17     ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31 10:23       ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31 14:07         ` Rob Herring
2018-05-31 14:57           ` Stephen Boyd
2018-06-01 10:51             ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-06-02  6:30               ` Stephen Boyd
2018-06-01  6:25           ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-06-01 17:32             ` Rob Herring
2018-06-04 11:32               ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-06-05 15:46                 ` Rob Herring
2018-06-06  7:34                   ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-06-06 15:16                     ` Rob Herring
2018-06-07 11:12                       ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-06-15 13:20                         ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30  8:42 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] regulator: bd71837: Devicetree bindings for BD71837 regulators Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31  3:04   ` Rob Herring
2018-05-31  7:21     ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31 14:00       ` Rob Herring
2018-05-30  8:42 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] clk: bd71837: Devicetree bindings for ROHM BD71837 PMIC Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31  3:05   ` Rob Herring
2018-05-30  8:43 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] clk: bd71837: Add driver for BD71837 PMIC clock Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-31 15:10   ` Stephen Boyd
2018-06-01  7:31     ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-06-01 17:11       ` Stephen Boyd
2018-05-30  8:43 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] regulator: bd71837: BD71837 PMIC regulator driver Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30 11:02   ` Applied "regulator: bd71837: BD71837 PMIC regulator driver" to the regulator tree Mark Brown
2018-05-30 11:14     ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30 11:17       ` Mark Brown
2018-05-30 12:58         ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30 14:34           ` Mark Brown
2018-05-30  9:05 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] mfd/regulator/clk: bd71837: ROHM BD71837 PMIC driver Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30 11:00   ` Mark Brown
2018-05-30 12:56     ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-30 15:41       ` Mark Brown [this message]

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