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authorMatthijs van Duin <matthijsvanduin@gmail.com>2015-06-01 21:33:28 +0200
committerTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>2015-06-01 12:48:23 -0700
commit7a6cb0abe1aa63334f3ded6d2b6c8eca80e72302 (patch)
tree6b0058a162fdff8d329b212fb1ff82b22968a2e5 /arch
parentb33558c906bf330336b16dc4598fecee66e48a57 (diff)
ARM: dts: am335x-boneblack: disable RTC-only sleep to avoid hardware damage
Avoid entering "RTC-only mode" at poweroff. It is unsupported by most versions of BeagleBone, and risks hardware damage. The damaging configuration is having system-power-controller without ti,pmic-shutdown-controller. Reported-by: Matthijs van Duin <matthijsvanduin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Matthijs van Duin <matthijsvanduin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> [Matthijs van Duin: added explanatory comments] Signed-off-by: Matthijs van Duin <matthijsvanduin@gmail.com> Fixes: http://bugs.elinux.org/issues/143 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.12+ [tony@atomide.com: updated comments with the hardware breaking info] Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bone-common.dtsi19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bone-common.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bone-common.dtsi
index c3255e0c90aa..dbb3f4d2bf84 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bone-common.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bone-common.dtsi
@@ -223,6 +223,25 @@
/include/ "tps65217.dtsi"
&tps {
+ /*
+ * Configure pmic to enter OFF-state instead of SLEEP-state ("RTC-only
+ * mode") at poweroff. Most BeagleBone versions do not support RTC-only
+ * mode and risk hardware damage if this mode is entered.
+ *
+ * For details, see linux-omap mailing list May 2015 thread
+ * [PATCH] ARM: dts: am335x-bone* enable pmic-shutdown-controller
+ * In particular, messages:
+ * http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg118585.html
+ * http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg118615.html
+ *
+ * You can override this later with
+ * &tps { /delete-property/ ti,pmic-shutdown-controller; }
+ * if you want to use RTC-only mode and made sure you are not affected
+ * by the hardware problems. (Tip: double-check by performing a current
+ * measurement after shutdown: it should be less than 1 mA.)
+ */
+ ti,pmic-shutdown-controller;
+
regulators {
dcdc1_reg: regulator@0 {
regulator-name = "vdds_dpr";