> Yup. Given that one shouldn't have to spend time in wait_for_power > very often (i.e., even if you run down your battery a lot, then you'll > probably also make sure that you have a better power source than just > 100mA), the general design principle there was more "survive the day" > than "seize the day". > > the problem here is, that even 500mA is not enough to boot. at least that's what I experienced. but maybe this was also only related to vsys going below it's threshold and initiating shutdown timer.
>> The idea in Qi is to defer anything fancy like the looping and flashing >> and whatever until Linux is up, we just try to boot Linux with low power >> (backlight off) and take care of it in there once rather than going on a >> mission to really recreate Linux in U-Boot. >> > > By the way, do we know if we really stay in the 100mA envelope until > the kernel can raise the current limit ? > I think this would only work if we keep CPU at 200Mhz and also disable all other components. ( we can't start GSM early in u-boot anymore) Better idea would probably be to charge to some level where we'll survive the boot process. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
