Messages in this thread | | | From | Anson Huang <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v1] ARM: dts: imx6sl-evk: keep sw4 always on | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:53:50 +0000 |
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Anson Huang Best Regards!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Fabio Estevam [mailto:festevam@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 7:33 AM > To: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>; Anson Huang > <anson.huang@nxp.com> > Cc: Robin Gong <yibin.gong@nxp.com>; Mark Rutland > <mark.rutland@arm.com>; open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED > DEVICE TREE BINDINGS <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>; linux-kernel > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>; > dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>; Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>; > Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>; moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE > IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: dts: imx6sl-evk: keep sw4 always on > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:34:11PM +0800, Robin Gong wrote: > >> SW4 is one power rail for LPDDR2 on i.mx6sl-evk, so it should be kept > >> always on. But it's disabled after switch disabled interface > >> implemented in pfuze driver 'commit 5fe156f1cab4 > >> ("regulator: pfuze100: add enable/disable for switch")'.Thus, it > >> breaks kernel bootup. Add 'regulator-always-on' for SW4. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Robin Gong <yibin.gong@nxp.com> > > > > Does that mean boards with existing DTB installed will stop working > > with new kernel? That's bad, and the kernel commit should probably be > > reverted. > > Yes, this is a good point. > > Anson, > > Should 5fe156f1cab4 ("regulator: pfuze100: add enable/disable for > switch") be reverted to avoid such breakage?
Yes, I think we can revert it to avoid breakage. Didn't notice that some i.MX platform do NOT have those critical switches always-on.
Anson.
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