BeagleBone questions (was Re: Towards an ARM system-building script)

[Adrian Chadd]

On 30 October 2012 09:31, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
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>> .. ah. armv5 has no sleep "halt" function, so it's just spinning.
>> Chances are that's a good candidate for why things are running too
>> warm.
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> Each SoC has its own flavor of this with varying degrees of latency...

Yeah, but the armv5 code doesn't do this, it just defaults to
cpufunc_null or whatever it's called. Hence, there's no idle halt /
wait-for-interrupt being done.



Adrian