Hi Ben, On 08/22/2013 08:58 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 17:26 +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: >> This patch hooks into the existing broadcast framework along with the support >> that this patchset introduces for ppc, and the cpuidle driver backend >> for powernv(posted out by Deepthi >> Dharwar:https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/128) >> to add sleep state as one of the deep idle states, in which the decrementer >> is switched off. >> >> However in this patch, we only emulate sleep by going into a state which does >> a nap with the decrementer interrupts disabled, termed as longnap. This >> enables >> focus on the timer broadcast framework for ppc in this series of patches , >> which is required as a first step to enable sleep on ppc. > > This is only for debug / proof of concept right ? We should use a real > sleep here. > > If we need to know whether the FW supports it (PORE etc...) we shall add > a device-tree property from the FW to indicate that fact.
We also need the sleep support right? The context management, I mean. Yes it is a debug patch, so as to first ensure that we have the hook up to the broadcast framework done right. Regards Preeti U Murthy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
