Re: Question about userspace-consumer

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Tue Aug 11 2009 - 16:40:29 EST


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:09:08PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
> > > that said, power supply framework and regulator framework seem to be
> > > well enough for implementing the basic support for SBS-enabled charging
> > > scheme.
>
> > As far as I understood SBS scheme, the host has very little impact on the
> > charging process. Most of the charging is handled by Smart Battery and Smart
> > Battery Charger without any host intervention.
>
> I strongly suspect that in at least some designs the battery charger
> itself will be at least partially dumb and the battery charger part of
> the spec done by software running on the host CPU - there's examples in
> the spec which seem to back that up.

and that's what I was talking about. I'll reply more to the other
subthread.

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balbi
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