GTA02 USB and battery current profile

Mike (mwester) mwester at dls.net
Sun Mar 9 17:09:22 CET 2008


Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:45:56AM -0500, Mike (mwester) wrote:
>   
>> Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:45:09AM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Just passed through my mind this idea, it would be nice to popup the
>>>>> user about which module to use, like when you attach an Nseries nokia
>>>>> phone to your pc, it asks "Pc-suite, Data transfer". How about that ?
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Please send patches :-)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> That would be done in userspace :-p
>>> Are you guys using HAL?
>>>
>>> You could install a hall-addon to check whether vbus is active and
>>> whether the cable attached is mini-b. If both are true this means we're
>>> attached as peripheral and instead of just starting g_ether (which is
>>> now statically linked to the kernel) you popup a screen for the user
>>> to choose.
>>>
>>> This means, g_ether and g_file_storage should be modules not statically
>>> linked to kernel.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Very good idea.  But let's hold off on implementing this until things  
>> stabilize a bit more with the device -- I rather often find myself in a  
>> situation where the display is blank or trashed for some reason, and I  
>> need to ssh into the phone to recover/debug/repair.  Can't do that if  
>> there's a popup on the blank or non-responsive display asking me what I  
>> want to do!
>>     
>
> It could be disabled for now, but why would you block serial console if
> there's something running on X side ?
>   
Serial console requires the debug board; most people will not have one 
-- and thus will only be able to gain access to the phone via ssh with 
g_ether.

(Also, for the GTA01 devices, even with the debug board the serial 
console is disabled if the GSM is running.)

Mike (mwester)





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