Hi Jesse,

About two years ago I used exactly the nucleo-l476rg board to test low
power mode on NuttX, but I didn't use it with Tickless.

I can try to find my config, but I put the test on my blog at that time:

https://acassis.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/testing-nuttx-low-power-modes/

Did you test the PM mode with normal scheduler ?

BR,

Alan

On 6/15/22, Jesse Jensen <jessejen...@geotab.com.invalid> wrote:
> Hello Alan,
> Thank you for your response. The arm_pminitialize function exists, but
> contains no logic Viewing implementations of that functions on other
> boards, they are mostly empty as well, with a couple also including
> led_pminitialize functions and/or pmbutton functions. As I am not
> (currently) using push buttons to wake from sleep nor am I using the LEDs
> to monitor the power manager, I do not think that logic is applicable.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:00 PM Jesse Jensen <jessejen...@geotab.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using the STM32L4 (nucleo-l476rg board) and am attempting to enter
>> the mcu's low-power modes (i.e. Stop1, Stop2, Standby). Within
>> stm32_idle.c
>> under PM_IDLE, I send the "wfi" command to send the device into sleep.
>> However, when measuring the current draw of the mcu, I can see that the
>> device is drawing much more power than it should be from any of the
>> low-power modes. It appears that it is either not entering the low-power
>> modes or is quickly woken out of them. I have enabled Tickless OS using
>> its
>> interval timer to prevent scheduler interrupts that would bring the
>> device
>> out of lp modes. Is there something that I am missing?
>>
>> Below are my configurations that seemed relevant to the problem at hand.
>>
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_TIM2=y
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_TIM5=y
>>
>> #
>> # Timer Configuration
>> #
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_ONESHOT=y
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_FREERUN=y
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_TICKLESS_ONESHOT=2
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_TICKLESS_FREERUN=5
>> CONFIG_STM32L4_ONESHOT_MAXTIMERS=1
>>
>> #
>> # Clocks and Timers
>> #
>> CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_TICKLESS=y
>> CONFIG_SCHED_TICKLESS=y
>> # CONFIG_SCHED_TICKLESS_ALARM is not set
>> CONFIG_SCHED_TICKLESS_LIMIT_MAX_SLEEP=y
>> CONFIG_USEC_PER_TICK=10000
>> # CONFIG_SYSTEM_TIME64 is not set
>> # CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_TIMEKEEPING is not set
>> # CONFIG_JULIAN_TIME is not set
>> CONFIG_START_YEAR=2018
>> CONFIG_START_MONTH=1
>> CONFIG_START_DAY=1
>> CONFIG_PREALLOC_TIMERS=4
>>
>> #
>> # Buffering
>> #
>> # CONFIG_DRVR_WRITEBUFFER is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRVR_READAHEAD is not set
>> # CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_SDIO is not set
>> # CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_SDIOWAIT_WRCOMPLETE is not set
>> # CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_SDIO_PREFLIGHT is not set
>> # CONFIG_MMCSD is not set
>> # CONFIG_MODEM is not set
>> # CONFIG_MTD is not set
>> # CONFIG_EEPROM is not set
>> # CONFIG_EFUSE is not set
>> # CONFIG_PIPES is not set
>> CONFIG_PM=y
>> CONFIG_PM_NDOMAINS=1
>> CONFIG_PM_GOVERNOR_GREEDY=y
>> # CONFIG_PM_GOVERNOR_ACTIVITY is not set
>>
>> #
>> # Governor options
>> #
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_PM_ACTIVITY_DOMAIN=0
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_PM_ACTIVITY_PRIORITY=6
>>
>> As a side note, I noticed that the tickless OS interval and freerunning
>> timers for the nucleo-l476rg seems to only support TIM channels, and not
>> LPTIM. As the TIM channels are not operational during low-power modes,
>> will
>> I be unable to use the tickless OS interval timer without rewriting the
>> code that is done to set up the tickless oneshot timer?
>>
>> Any support on this would be greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Jesse Jensen (he, him, his)
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