Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Jay Vaughan
> There are people that think all kinds of stupid stuff, we shouldn't > let > it divert us from reality. > - -Andy If I'd read it on a wet t-shirt, I'd believe it, but as it stands, just some dork email .. meh. I want to BELIEVE! ; -- Jay Vaughan __

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > Fine! But where in this description is the point about ME suggesting sth > like routing (new) GPIO to all sorts of peripherals??? Ah, this was the mail that scared me: https://lists.internal.openmoko.org/pipermail/gta03/2008-August/000497.html > I'm well aware about the

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Am Mi 20. August 2008 schrieb Werner Almesberger: |> Joerg Reisenweber wrote: |>> HUH? Please give a pointer or quote! :-( |> Phew. Instead of spending the rest of the day searching through our |> archives

Re: Wifi / PMU Startup actions enforced by our variant

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> Yes, but the datasheet does not have all the info. There are various |> mask-programmed options on our variant I don't know are listed anywhere |> e

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 20. August 2008 schrieb Werner Almesberger: > Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > HUH? Please give a pointer or quote! :-( > > Phew. Instead of spending the rest of the day searching through our > archives for those old problems, let me just briefly describe what > happened: Fine! But where in th

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Uwe Klein
On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but the datasheet does not have all the info. There are various > mask-programmed options on our variant I don't know are listed anywhere > externally. But the basic deal is it switches on a bunch of regulators > all at the same moment

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > HUH? Please give a pointer or quote! :-( Phew. Instead of spending the rest of the day searching through our archives for those old problems, let me just briefly describe what happened: - GTA01: while powering down (PMU.NoPower), the GPIOs would "jerk", causing MODEM_

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
> > If I'm in a situation where I absolutely want to make sure we don't > > emit any power, I'd remove the battery anyway. > OK, there are people who feel uncomfortable with a battery in *any* cellphone > nearby, when they have some confidential talk ;-) OTOH, I'm more concerned about possible t

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 20. August 2008 schrieb Werner Almesberger: > I don't have any specific problem I suspect to happen. I just wanted > to point out the general problem (which seems particularly bad with > those Samsung SoCs), which seems to be important since Joerg recently > suggested to run all sorts of GPI

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> We have no control over PMU startup. It brings up various rails how it |> likes all at the same time at levels it likes. | The PCF50633 ? | I have prin

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Uwe Klein wrote: > Would "reeducating" the PMU help? If you have some technology how to alter the mask-programmed default settings we (and probably lots of others as well) would be extremely interested ;-) - Werner ___ hardware mailing list hardware@li

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Uwe Klein
On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have no control over PMU startup. It brings up various rails how it > likes all at the same time at levels it likes. The PCF50633 ? I have printed out the schematics but not committed them to memory yet. > > Problems with startup at low bat

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Andy Green wrote: > Have a look at the circuit and give some examples of signals that can be > in this condition in "off" state, then we can talk about it. Otherwise > it's just handwaving. I don't have any specific problem I suspect to happen. I just wanted to point out the general problem (whic

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 8/20/08, Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> That's why try to control as many signals to subsystems that are |> active in PMU.STANDBY as possible from PMU GPIOs. And yes, it would |> be

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Uwe Klein
On 8/20/08, Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's why try to control as many signals to subsystems that are > active in PMU.STANDBY as possible from PMU GPIOs. And yes, it would > be great to have more GPIOs that are guaraneteed to have a defined > state in PMU.STANDBY for thi

Re: Wifi / off-state leakage

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | So unless we're absolutely sure no GPIO can ever have a non-zero | potential (or only through a very large impedance) while we're in Have a look at the circuit and give some examples of signals that can be

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Andy Green wrote: > We're talking about OFF state, not suspend. Yes. What we had happen in GTA01 and HXD8 was power crawling into the CPU over GPIOs that were still at a high potential. This in turn came out again on GPIOs going to inputs, such as the PMU's power button input or the GSM reset/butt

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Andy Green wrote: |> When IO_3V3 goes down it goes down... the pcf50633 has special |> arrangement to bring down "off" regulators to 0V. | | Yet, in the past, we observed problems with power sneaking through

Re: Wifi / GSM logic powerdown while device on

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |> So, which pins still have any high level that can feed GSM side through |> protection diodes in this situation? CPU doesn't have any rail above 0V.

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Andy Green wrote: > When IO_3V3 goes down it goes down... the pcf50633 has special > arrangement to bring down "off" regulators to 0V. Yet, in the past, we observed problems with power sneaking through GPIOs from the permanently powered part of the system into the one turned off. We're doing much

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Uwe Klein
On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, which pins still have any high level that can feed GSM side through > protection diodes in this situation? CPU doesn't have any rail above 0V... Sorry for herding goats. MY understanding was we talk about CPU up _and_ GSM down. i.e.

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Somebody in the thread at some point said: |> | On 8/19/08, Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Uwe Klein
On 8/20/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > | On 8/19/08, Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > |> This power removal is done by U1705, and it should relyably cut power > when

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On 8/19/08, Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> This power removal is done by U1705, and it should relyably cut power when we |> disable IO_3V3 what is quite normal for shutoff. |> No special

Re: Wifi

2008-08-20 Thread Uwe Klein
On 8/19/08, Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This power removal is done by U1705, and it should relyably cut power when we > disable IO_3V3 what is quite normal for shutoff. > No special kernel action required. This is in a lot of cases a faulty assumtion. Depending on the intern