Resume from Power Off

[Wally Ritchie]

On resume from what Samsung calls Power-OFF, the on-chip ROM boot
brings in the 4K
block from NAND to the 4K Steppingstone RAM. The present code for start.S checks
to see if this is a resume (rather than a cold boot). It can tell this
from GSTATUS2 and
GSTATUS3 which are zeroed on a cold restart and hold their values in
the Power-Off
state. The present code jumps to the memory location previously saved
in GSTATUS3
by the code which put the machine into the sleep state (which I
haven't yet located).

Since these two 32 bit registers are the only resource available for
resume, it seems a
bit wasteful to use half of them to store a simple vector. Why not
just store this in
a fixed location in the sleeping SDRAM(like the reset vector) and
resume from there.
This leaves the full 64 bits available for other uses e.g. state bits
and counters.

Very little power is consumed by waking up the CPU every second or so, bringing
in the steppingstone code, and checking whether we should actually
resume. This is
especially true if we keep the SDRAM in power-down before we decide to actually
resume. One real use for this (at least on GTA01) is to examine the Bluetooth
wakeup pins which are on ordinary PIO's and cannot be used to wakeup the CPU. It
appears that there is a bit of room in this 4K block for some low
level resume handling like
this.

If more extensive resume processing is necessary, the SDRAM can be taken out of
power down self-refesh and the further processing can be done by ram based code
resulting in either a return to power-off or a full resume of the kernel.

This approach could also be used for some limited processing of the GSM stream
in the "RESUME" context either prior to or before resuming the kernel.
This could
result in an immediate capture of some data that might otherwise be lost.

Just my $0.02

Cheers