linux-kernel - Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

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Message-ID: <20090615170655.GF25040@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:06:55 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ian Molton <ian@...menth.co.uk>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>,
	san@...roid.com, rlove@...gle.com, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support


> > 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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