Re: Battery management?

Thanks Matt!

I'll try to take care of this.
Good luck for your burial, and be born again soon!

;-)

    Michael.

>Hi Michael!
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>No, I haven't progressed beyond the patch I sent to the list awhile back.
>I think it will mostly be a matter of rearranging the ds2760 code to fit
>the new world order, and hooking up to battery.c (zap just did this, so we
>can pattern our work after his). We should check with Jamey or pb, but I
>think the battery code in arch/arm/common/ipaq is not functional, and
>still needs to be adapted from the 2.4 way of doing things to the 2.6 way.
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>I really want to help with this and all the other stuff, but I'm buried
>under schoolwork until May 27. But I can probably afford a few minutes
>here and there to try to answer questions.
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>Matt
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>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
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>>Hi Matt!
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>>What's up!
>>Have you progressed on this battery management topic?
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>>If you don't have time at the moment, I can try to have a look...
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>>By the way, once battery management works and touchscreen calibration is
>>ready (any good news, Alain?), I agree it makes sense to go mobile and
>>chroot to an ext2 partition on a CF card.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Michael.
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>>>On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 23:37, Matthew Reimer wrote:
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>>>>Can you give us an idea of how this battery stuff should work in a 2.6
>>>>world? Do I presume correctly that in 2.4 it was hooked up through hal,
>>>>but that hal is gone in 2.6?
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>>>It did present an interface through the HAL, yes (/proc/hal/battery to
>>>be specific) but virtually nothing used it. The majority of
>>>applications interrogated the battery through the APM emulation layer,
>>>and a few more advanced programs read from /proc/asic/battery directly.
>>>So the demise of the HAL probably won't have much impact on this code.
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>>>>Should it be another soc device, say, shamcop_battery.c?
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>>>I think the right thing to do is to implement the OWM interface as a SoC
>>>device, then have a battery_ds2760 module (approximately equivalent to
>>>the old h3600_asic_battery.c) that hooks onto that and in turn exposes
>>>an interface to applications through drivers/misc/battery.c.
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>>>p.
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>>Michael Opdenacker
>>http://opdenacker.org/
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