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Old 12-19-2009, 06:41 PM   #1
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serial console goes to sleep - gated clock

Does anyone happen to know how to keep the serial console from going to sleep after a bit of inactivity? At some point I see a message that the UART clock's been gated, and then only the Kindle side can wake it up again.

It's obviously some power management thing. Has anyone seen a setting for that someplace?

Even better would be another IO line like DTR or RTS that would wake it up.

Also, is there any GPIO-like unused pin anyplace that the system has access to?
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Here's the actual sleep msg:

uart: I def:clk gate::uart clk gated
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I found it in the kernel sources, and it's controlled by a device attribute at /sys/devices/platform/mxcintuart.0/uart_clk_state. Set it to 0, and it won't gate.

I was about to write an init.d script to do that for me, but I found something in /etc/init.d/power that does that for you. You just need to create a file called DO_NOT_KILL_UART in /mnt/us.
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