Messages in this thread | | | From | Juergen Borleis <> | Subject | [PATCH 2nd try] RTC/i.MX/DryICE: add recovery routines to the driver | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:11:51 +0200 |
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2nd try, this time with a cover letter... m(
The built-in RTC unit on some i.MX SoCs isn't an RTC only. It is also a tamper monitor unit which can keep some keys. When it does its tamper detection job and a tamper violation is detected, this RTC unit locks completely including the real-time counter. In this state the unit is completely useless. The only way to bring it out of this locked state is a power on reset. At the next boot time some flags signals the tamper violation and a specific register access sequence must be done to finaly bring this unit into life again. Until this is done, there is no way to use it again as an RTC. But also without any enabled tamper detection sometimes this unit tends to lock. And in this case the same steps must be done to bring it into life again. The current implementation of the DryIce driver isn't able to unlock the device successfully in the case it is locked somehow. Only a full power cycle including *battery power* can help in this case.
The attached change set adds the required routines to be able to unlock the DryIce unit in the case the driver detects a locked unit. This includes unlocking it if it is locked by accident or malfunction and not by a real tamper violation.
The last patch of this series is for reference only and should not be part of the kernel. It just adds some code to force a locked DryIce unit to check if the new routines are able to unlock it again. This code was required because I had no hardware which really uses the tamper detection features of this unit.
Comments are welcome.
jbe
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