Hi all, The ROHM BD9571MWV PMIC on the Renesas Salvator-X(S) and ULCB development boards supports DDR Backup Power, which means that the DDR power rails can be kept powered while the main SoC is powered down.
This patch series extends the support for DDR backup mode[1] to systems with toggle instead of momentary power switches. With a toggle power switch (or level signal), the following steps must be followed exactly: 1. Configure PMIC for backup mode, which changes the role of the power switch to a wake-up switch, 2. Switch accessory power switch off, to prepare for system suspend, which is a manual step not controlled by software, 3. Suspend system, 4. Switch accessory power switch on, to resume. Unlike on systems with a momentary toggle switch, an additional step 2 must be performed in between step 1 and step 3. Hence step 1 can no longer be handled in the PMIC's suspend callback. This patch series proposes a new callback for wake-up change notification, which allows performing step 1 when the user writes "enabled" to the PMIC's "wakeup" virtual file in sysfs, e.g. echo enabled > /sys/devices/platform/soc/e60b0000.i2c/i2c-7/7-0030/bd9571mwv-regulator.2.auto/power/wakeup Conversely, writing "disabled" reverts the role of the accessory switch to a power switch. Note that unlike with momentary switches, backup mode is not enabled by default, as enabling it prevents the board from being powered off using the power switch, which may confuse the user. This has been tested on M3ULCB (thanks Jacopo!), and on Salvator-X(S). For testing, driver and DTS patches are available in the topic/bd9571-ddr-backup-mode-driver-v2 and topic/bd9571-ddr-backup-mode-dt-v2 branches of my renesas-drivers git repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git. Thanks for your comments! [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/14/302 Geert Uytterhoeven (2): PM / wakeup: Add callback for wake-up change notification regulator: bd9571mwv: Add support for toggle power switches drivers/base/power/wakeup.c | 4 ++++ drivers/regulator/bd9571mwv-regulator.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/pm.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+) -- 2.7.4 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds