On Wednesday 27 February 2008 06:12:58 Andy Green wrote: > > * BT and GPS power nodes are only in a very deeply embedded i2c subdir, > > whereas the other device nodes are in /sys/devices/. > > We can symlink them if you think it is good.
Yes, that makes it a bit more consistent, so please do that. > > > * after enabling the BT power node, no bluetooth model is found on USB. > > You must additionally echo "0" > bah-de-blah/reset for detection Excellent. That does it. I can scan and inquire fine here. > > * Wifi module works ok, but has some quirks. First, reception was not > > that good, second, there are some driver problems with the wireless > > extensions not being fully supported. you can't set the channel in ad-hoc > > mode, link quality has bogus values (x/y, x >= y), when you scan and > > there is nothing found, iwlist eth0 scan hangs with: > > eth0 Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable > > kernel says: > > AR6000 scan complete: 0 > > ar6000_ioctl_giwscan(): data length 0 > > [repeated 20 times] > > You must have the "89" firmware on your module for good operation. Which I have. > > * NOT tested yet: > > * accellerometer > > * suspend/resume from various sources > > * RTC > > Testing RTC will be valuable because I never looked at it and the time > is often inconsistent. Ok, I will do some tests today/tomorrow. Is suspend/resume expected to work now? > > > Further questions: > > > > * What's the plan regarding support for non-coloumb-counter batteries? > > apm did not show any sane values. Interestingly after some time, I got a > > BATTFULL message from PCF -- is this correct? > > They should work for charging but we don't ship with them so no > telemetry. The telemetry from the smart batteries is pretty good. I see. However we should support at least the same level of telemetry with the dumb batteries that we had in GTA01. > > BATTFULL is fine it is an event from the standalone charger state > machine that it sees it should stop charging because the battery is > acting done. It keeps topping the thing up at (long) intervals and will > repeat it ongoing, but it is accurate. Excellent, we could not sense that in GTA01. > > > > * battemp and friends do not contain information yet. > > Raster was in here yesterday asking about that, he is on it. Ok, cool. Going standard power class is definitely a good way. I want to see the embedded apm emulation dying a rapid death. Cheers, :M:
