[PATCH 07/11] imx: ventana: put LTC3676 regulators in continuous mode

Tim Harvey tharvey at gateworks.com
Fri Jun 11 21:46:24 CEST 2021


In the default pulse-skipping mode regulators that are very lightly
loaded can fail to regulate properly. Switching them to always use
continuous mode causes only around 10mW of overall system power
difference in a lightly loaded system that isn't already operating
them in continuous mode.

Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com>
---
 board/gateworks/gw_ventana/common.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/board/gateworks/gw_ventana/common.c b/board/gateworks/gw_ventana/common.c
index b5a0162c5e..adbc6791b3 100644
--- a/board/gateworks/gw_ventana/common.c
+++ b/board/gateworks/gw_ventana/common.c
@@ -1688,6 +1688,12 @@ void setup_pmic(void)
 			/* set SW3 (VDD_ARM) */
 			pmic_reg_write(p, LTC3676_DVB3A, 0x1f);
 		}
+
+		/* put all switchers in continuous mode */
+		pmic_reg_write(p, LTC3676_BUCK1, 0xc0);
+		pmic_reg_write(p, LTC3676_BUCK2, 0xc0);
+		pmic_reg_write(p, LTC3676_BUCK3, 0xc0);
+		pmic_reg_write(p, LTC3676_BUCK4, 0xc0);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1



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