power management

Richard A. Smith richard at laptop.org
Thu Mar 29 20:29:54 EDT 2007


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:01 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:

>> Recompute the advisability of continuing to provide mesh service,
>> might be one. 

The EC communicates this to the wireless device without CPU 
intervention.  There are 2 IO lines from the EC to the wireless that 
indicate 4 levels of battery capacity.

> At 20% discharging on suspend, wake up and hibernate.
> I wish this worked on PC hardware.

I was planning on having and alarm at say like 10%.  The EC shuts things 
down at around 7%.

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Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child



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