u-boot fix to charge empty battery

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Thu Oct 9 17:12:40 CEST 2008


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Werner Almesberger wrote:

>> 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 ?

We won't know for sure until we've done it... the worst that can happen
is we stick the charger on and play dead same as this, so I think it's
the right way to eliminate a huge subsystem that as we see today is not
really under control.

- -Andy
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