Re: Nokia Internet Tablets

[Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@nokia.com>]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:27 +0200, ext Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:34:22AM -0600, ext Otto Solares wrote:


> > -I don't plan to suspend but just sleep while idling, is this a good
> >  approach to power management (pm)?
> 
> That's broken afaict.

The feature might be broken, but the approach is correct.

> > -I read about the pm branch, where can I pull it?
> 
> from linux-omap git.
> 
> git pull \
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git pm
> 
> should do it

but afaik it still doesn't survive the wfi

> > -Are the CONFIG_REGULATOR and CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY APIs of any use for
> >  the Internet Tablets?
> 
> hmm... it could be used for charging but it won't work unless you get
> documentation of the charging chips used on n8x0. Also, you'd need to
> change BME I suppose, which you can't :-s

I think there was the intention to provide BME still i nbinary form but
make it available to the community and have somebody from nokia to
recompile it when needed. Far from optimal but at least something.

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Cheers, Igor

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Igor Stoppa
Maemo Software - Nokia Devices R&D - Helsinki