Re: [PATCH] limit power budget on spitz

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:26 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:22:50AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Just because the omap does it that way, doesn't mean it can't be done
> > better ;-).
> 
> Agreed that platform_data is a better approach overall for holding that
> power budget.  OMAP and AT91 should do so too.
>
> Sounds like someone should update the patch to (a) use a 150 mA budget,
> and (b) test for those other machines.  As a near term patch, anyway.
> 
> Unless there's a patch to provide and use platform_data ... but that'd
> be much more involved, since ISTR the PXA platforms don't yet have a
> mechanism to provide board-specific platform_data.  (I'll suggest the
> AT91 code as a model there; it's simpler hardware than OMAP, so the
> code is more straightforward.)

The PXA platform does have an existing mechanism to pass platform data
(I added it a while back). I've added
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=3547/1
into the patch system replacing Pavel's version.

Cheers,

Richard