GTA02 USB and battery current profile
Felipe Balbi
me at felipebalbi.com
Sun Mar 9 17:37:57 CET 2008
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:09:22AM -0500, Mike (mwester) wrote:
> 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.)
Ok, got your point.
So, for now, g_ether is and will be statically linked to kernel.
Or you could put something in /etc/init.d/ to load it as the default
gadget module ;-)
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Best Regards,
Felipe Balbi
me at felipebalbi.com
http://blog.felipebalbi.com
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