Re: sharpsl_pm: using milivolts instead of custom units?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 14:20:21 EST


Hi!

> > #ifdef CONFIG_SA1100_COLLIE
> > struct battery_thresh spitz_battery_levels_noac[] = {
> > { 368, 100},
> > { 358, 25},
> > { 356, 5},
> > { 0, 0},
> > ...
> >
> > ...so it could get very confusing. Would it be feasible to convert to
> > mV as soon as possible and have all constants in milivolts? I realize
> > they may be slightly different for different models, but they should
> > at least be comparable.
>
> The battery levels are totally different between the models and each is
> going to need a levels translation table as its an extremely none linear
> decay curve. Using ADC values here makes a lot of sense as that's as
> granular as the information ever gets and you don't start to lose
> accuracy anywhere with rounding.

Well, all the models have li-ion batteries, so levels (in milivolts)
for stuff like "battery empty" should be very similar. If conversion
from ADC to voltage is non-trivial, that's a show stopper I guess.

> I still think you've much bigger problems to worry about as this code is
> heavily PXA biased and is going to need a lot of changes to work on the
> SA1100. Its why I've put it in mach-pxa rather than common and a
> separate driver for collie based on this code might be easier.

Actually I think I can refactor in a way that a common core can be
share. I'd hate to copy 1000 lines...
Pavel

--
Thanks, Sharp!
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