Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

Pavel Machek
2009-06-15T17:07:14Z

> > Actually I agree with Brian here, this is better done at kernel level.
> >
> > OTOH, at least initially, it does not need to be done at all. It will
> > make battery readings less reliable but hey... the battery meter does
> > not work reliably anyway and estimating capacity left from voltage
> > acceptably on other platforms...
>
> I'd agree. This stuff can wait until the core support is solid. I'd
> fight harder for conditional support for wakelocks since that has a
> much bigger impact on battery life (being able to know when it's safe
> to power collapse in idle, etc), whereas this just improves the
> accuracy of the battery gauging.

Yes, wakelocks are more important than battery gauging... but they
need core support :-(; and they can wait, too.

Getting serial support & board-dream upstream are very good first
steps (thanks!). I'm currently trying to get 2.6.30 + your series of 3
+ framebuffer changes to boot.
Pavel
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