[Gta04-owner] 3.16-rc5

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 19.07.2014 um 15:26 schrieb Neil Jerram:

> Benjamin Deering <ben_deering at swissmail.org> writes:
> 
>> I was seeing power usage like 750ma and the device was getting warm.
> 
> Yes, I'm seeing that too.

Yes. I think it is because power management of the Wi2Wi chip is not working
correctly yet. So I guess the chip is always in power-on state and draws ~250 mA.

> 
>> All of the sysfs paths have changed, but  I did find the pressure
>> input somewhere.  Did you get the updated udev rules for charging?
> 
> I hadn't, no.  But I have now, and have retried, and they don't appear
> to have made any difference.

Another note: HDQ is also not working.

> 
>> I enabled omap_pwm, but the gta04 didn't boot with that kernel.  I
>> haven't connected the serial cable to see why.  The failure to boot
>> may be unrelated to omap_pwm.  I will see if I can get it to load and
>> make the backlight dimming work next week.
> 
> Cool, thanks.  Backlight dimming would save same power, of course,
> although I guess not most of that 750ma.

Backlight dimming is missing because an omap-pwm patch is submitted
but not yet been upstreamed.

BR,
Nikolaus