[PATCH 0/10] u-boot powering on from a dead battery

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Tue Jul 15 12:54:41 CEST 2008


This series of patches improves the behaviour of u-boot when the
battery is absent or dead. The make the following changes:

- reduce the maximum USB current needed to reach wait_for_power
  to below 100mA
- correct the logic of wait_for_power to actually make it wait
  until we have good power
- make sure we charge an empty battery before trying to boot
- assorted small cleanup

Note that, if there's no battery at all or if the battery has cut
off, u-boot will give the system the benefit of the doubt and try
to boot if there's any other acceptable power source. It would be
safer to force the system to wait until the battery has been
charged to provide some buffer, but this wouldn't let us boot
without battery at all.

- Werner




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