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* [[APF27 Linux dynamic frequency scaling | Another good way of decreasing mA is to use frequency scaling]]
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* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6699 Power Management in Linux-Based Systems (Linux Journal)]
 
* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6699 Power Management in Linux-Based Systems (Linux Journal)]
 
* [http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php?title=Startup_shutdown_and_power_management BlackFin way of doing]
 
* [http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php?title=Startup_shutdown_and_power_management BlackFin way of doing]
  
 
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[[Category:Power Management]]

Revision as of 10:04, 22 February 2012

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APF9328

APF9328 alone

Power consumption measurements have been done on an APF9328 board. The results are available in the APF9328 datasheet.

APF9328 connected to a DevLight board

Functionnality power needed @ 5V how to reduce it
FPGA xxxmA don't configure it
Ethernet ifconfig eth0 down
i.MXL (proc + SDRAM + Flash)
LCD

APF27

Linux configuration

NOW DONE BY DEFAULT IN LATEST APF27 KERNEL CONFIGS

 Power management options  --->
     [*] Power Management support
     [*]   Power Management Debug Support
     [*]     Verbose Power Management debugging
     [*] Suspend to RAM and standby
     [ ]   Test suspend/resume and wakealarm during bootup
     < > Advanced Power Management Emulation

power management handling is done in arch/arm/mach-mx2/pm_imx27.c

  • if you put the APF27 in suspend mode, it could be interesting to be able to wake it with the "User button":
$ make linux-menuconfig

To know if driver is launched

# dmesg | grep Power
Power Management for Freescale i.MX2x

Ethernet

fec_old driver currently do not implement CONFIG_PM stuff...

Power-up

  • ifconfig eth0 up

Power-down

  • ifconfig eth0 down -->> ~ -400 mW

Other devices

Should comply to suspend/resume device drive mechanism.

List available suspend modes

# cat /sys/power/state
standby mem

Enter standby mode (i.MX in Doze mode)

# echo standby > /sys/power/state
PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
PM: Preparing system for standby sleep
Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
PM: Entering standby sleep
Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
imx-uart imx-uart.0: preparing suspend
imx-uart imx-uart.2: preparing suspend
mxc_nand mxc_nand.0: preparing suspend
...

Enter suspend to memory mode (i.MX in Sleep mode)

# echo mem > /sys/power/state

!! only an external interrupt can now wake up the i.MX27 !!

Debugging suspend/resume

  • pass no_console_suspend as boot parameter:
BIOS> setenv console console=ttySMX0,115200 no_console_suspend
BIOS> boot

Known problems

  • USB: usb cause system warning :
# echo standby > /sys/power/state
PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
___ apf27_pm_suspend
___ apf27_pm_resume
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/hrtimer.c:625 hres_timers_resume+0x3c/0x60()
hres_timers_resume() called with IRQs enabled!Modules linked in: gpio
[<c002c0d8>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c003c148>] (warn_slowpath+0x70/0x8c)
[<c003c0d8>] (warn_slowpath+0x0/0x8c) from [<c0055dfc>] (hres_timers_resume+0x3c/0x60)

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