On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Högander Jouni wrote:

> L3 and L4 are anyway on when not in wfi, because of sleep/wkdep, so no
> power save. This is the case at least with OMAP3 not sure about OMAP2.

I thought that disabling the iclken bit still disabled some gates 
in the OCP interface.  Richard, do you know if that is the case?

> > There also was some discussion last year that modules like GPTIMER can 
> > have their functional clocks enabled, but their interface clocks disabled 
> > when register access is not needed.  Wakeups from the module are still 
> > sent asynchronously to the PRCM.  Again the motivation is to save power.  
> > I don't think the current code tries to do this.
> >
> 
> In many modules there is also possibility to gate ick by HW when not
> in wfi (see AUTOIDLE in SYCONFIG). I'm not sure about this but
> extremely also fcks could be taken care by HW (see CLOCKACTIVITY in
> SYSCONFIG).

How will the PRCM know when the device driver is accessing the module 
registers?


- Paul

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