On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<k.kozlow...@samsung.com> wrote:
> W dniu 28.08.2015 o 17:35, Javier Martinez Canillas pisze:

>>
>> Ok, I'll see if I can take a look what is needed to implement a Exynos542x 
>> CPUidle
>> driver. I'm quite busy with other stuff right now but I should be less busy 
>> in a
>> couple of weeks.
>
> The only useful users of Exynos542x cpuidle would be Chromebooks.
> Probably the same goes with suspend to RAM. Non-mobile devices could
> leave without it.
>
> In the same time cpuidle and S2R would require a significant amount of
> work. Testing would have to be performed on Chromebooks. I have doubts
> it would work on Odroid XU3.
>
> I dug into S2R issues on Odroid XU3 and after fixing trivial imprecise
> abort I don't have clue. It just dies somewhere in firmware/bootloader.
> Vendor code has a lot more stuff related to suspend and testing it
> one-by-one whether it fixes the issue is frustrating.
>
> Do we really need cpuidle or S2R on Exynos542x/5800?

Cpuidle support on Odroid-XU3 and Peach-Pi would be useful for general
PM/scheduler work on big.LITTLE systems. On the Odroid, it has the
additional benefit of allowing power measurements, which helps.

Regards,
Amit
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