Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 5 authors, 2017-04-13

Re: [RFC 8/8] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-sabresd: Enable fsl,ldo-bypass

From: Leonard Crestez <hidden>
Date: 2017-03-29 13:32:36
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On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 18:13 +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 22.03.2017, 18:53 +0200 schrieb Leonard Crestez:
quoted
This enables LDO bypass by default on the imx6qdl-sabresd boards. New
dts files with -ldo suffix are added for users who want to run with LDOs
enabled on these boards anyway.
Given that using LDO bypass affects the device lifetime negatively (see
AN4724), I think the default should still be to use LDO enabled mode and
have new DTs for people that desire to shorten the lifetime of the SoC
for a minimal drop in power consumption.
This was based on what the Freescale BSP does, I don't particularly
object to upstream having a different default. It would be nice for
testing if this ldo-bypass path was enabled by default for some boards
but it's not a very good reason.

I will switch the default.

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Regards,
Leonard
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