Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future Button and LED software spec)
Mo Abrahams
moabrahams at dashavoo.com
Tue Apr 29 17:20:44 CEST 2008
Yay! That ends the turmoil going on in my mind between my impatience and
my crippling desire to have the best of everything!
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:41 +0100, Tim Coggins wrote:
> Steve kindly emailed me on this issue and said:
>
> "The A5 boards have been reworked to remove the [LED] issue. So WRT
> LEDs a5 and a6 have the same power consumption".
>
> Therefore you wouldn't need to dig out your soldering iron. Does
> anyone know the other differences with power consumption are between
> boards?
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> up OM software will eschew the frivoulous lighting of LEDs.
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Crane, Matthew <mcrane03 at harris.com> wrote:
> >
> > How complicated would surgery to fix this be? Is it reasonable to
> > create a wiki page detailing hw fix?
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> > [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Andy Green
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:56 AM
> > To: List for Openmoko community discussion
> > Subject: Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future
> > Button and LED software spec)
> >
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> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> > |> | Is it possible to turn off these LEDs via Software?
> >
> > |> Yes, they're all controlled from the CPU and default to being off.
> >
> > | Does this mean that they won't draw any power when they're turned off?
> >
> > They won't draw any power when off... that part works as intended.
> >
> > It's only when you turn them on, the transistor causes the CPU pin
> > itself to eat current itself due to an oversight. The effect in
> > consumption terms is something as if you lit several LEDs instead of the
> > one, say. But the LEDs come on and off as normal, are lit properly,
> > etc.
> >
> > In normal use the LEDs aren't on much if at all, so it isn't anything
> > that would stop me getting an A5 personally.
> >
> > - -Andy
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