On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:54:35AM +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > 2) Always enable the core voltage regulator. It somehow isn't enabled > anywhere else. I'm guessing the core's running on leakage current from > VDDalive when the kernel is booted.
I strongly suspect that it is enabled by default when the system boots, otherwise u-boot would run into trouble. The regulator API will (currently) only turn off regulators if a consumer asks for it, though the always_on constraint is desirable since this is likely to change in future.
