Re: [PATCH] thermal: armada: read stable temp on Armada XP

From: Ezequiel Garcia
Date: Wed Feb 25 2015 - 13:20:13 EST


On 02/25/2015 02:04 PM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>
>> My conclusions about these registers are based on experimental data. The
>> documentation is very sparse, but the Thermal Manager Control and Status
>> Register looks like the preferred register given the way it is laid out in the
>> public spec.
>
> Ezequiel,
>
> as you worked on this do you know why we used the Thermal Sensor Status Register
> instead of the Thermal Manager Control and Status Register ?
> My first guess is that the giving the name of the registers the 1st one made
> more sens to use for a thermal sensor.
>

Actually, we based this driver in the vendor bootloader. The specs weren't
of much use back then.
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Ezequiel GarcÃa, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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