On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Benny Sj�strand wrote:

> >     One issue, IIRC, is that while asleep the sa1110 still gets timer
> > interrupts, maybe it's not the timer interrupt - the "alarm" that can wake
> > up the device at a particular time, but it's not an alarm. so the sa1110
> > is constantly waking up and going back to sleep.

No, you're confused between IDLE and SLEEP modes.

> In released Compaq spec on page 2 "Aditional feutures built into SA-1110
> chipset" it says something about "Four general purpose interruptible
> timers" sounds interesting, i did not found any information about those
> can be used ? Or is it in the SA1110 Developers Manual, something
> integrated in the SA1110 that is something that i don't have any knowledge
> about. But I will check that now.

It's part of the SA1110.  See the OSCR and OSMR registers.

> However there's a external timer controller that are running the SA1110
> will only wakup on programed interrupt source set in the PWER register and
> it's only set to GPIO1 that is the Power button on the iPAQ. So it will
> not wakeup however a timer is running.

No timer can run while in sleep mode.  Only GPIOs and the RTC alarm can wake 
up the CPU.

> But if it's true that there is a timer running during sleep it should be
> turned off to save power.

Timers are simply not powered in sleep mode.  The RTC is and I doubt you can 
nor would shut it off.


Nicolas


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