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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 2/2] ARM: imx: support suspend states on imx7D
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 03:01:07PM +0000, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/Makefile | 2 +
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/common.h | 4 +
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/pm-imx7.c | 917
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/suspend-imx7.S | 529 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 5 files changed, 1453 insertions(+)
> >
> > 1453 lines addition to kernel only for i.MX7D suspend support. Yes, this is the
> > way we support suspend on i.MX6, but that's enough, and we have to stop this
> > somewhere. I would ask you to take Sudeep's comment and adopt PSCI for
> > i.MX7D power management.
>
> According to PSCI spec, a supervisory software must be implemented under either
> HVC(EL2) or SMC(EL3) privilege level. I agree that, with this idea, we could finally move
> these 1453 lines of codes from kernel into a platform specific firmware. The problem
> is we don't have the firmware so far, and we haven't even had a plan to enable the
> hypervisor or secure software on this platform. Because low power consumption is
> the key feature of this i.MX7D platform, please continue to consider the current
> implementation and get this feature supported first.

Can't U-Boot be considered as a firmware to implement PSCI? I have seen
an initial ARMv7 PSCI core support for U-Boot added by Marc Zyngier.

Shawn

[1] http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-December/168655.html


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