[maemo-developers] dsme, Re: Would like to know the status of (was RE: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN])

[From: nick loeve]

Hello!

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:
> nick loeve wrote:
>>
>> Yep, I have been reading the archives and have compiled a shortlist of
>> info based on past discussions (mainly that you have started! ). I
>> guess I might start documenting what is known already and try and get
>> it all in one place.
>
> Yes, please do if you can.

https://maemo.org/community/wiki/poweranddevicemanagement/

At the moment it is just a link dump and i intend to summarize some of
the info in that page.

If you anyone has more useful links/info just dump them on the page or
send them in this thread.

Cheers

>I am guilty of not doing it myself over years.
> I'm sure people on this list can fill some gaps. Apart from examining dsme,
> its modules and dsmetest in initfs (and its runtime behaviour using strace),
> check also powerlaunch http://powerlaunch.garage.maemo.org/ It is
> replacement of mce (also closed). mce talks to dsme too and is done in
> similar modular way so it can help with some understanding. Powerlaunch
> imitates some mce<->dsme communication, see dsme.c,h at
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/powered/?root=powerlaunch
>
> As for bme and figuring out how battery charging works, one could strace it
> and see what tahvo/retu register it uses, some bits are mentioned in kernel
> headers (not sure about name now, something like tahvo_retu_user.h) and
> there is also this info
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=120752529631862&w=2
>
> Frantisek
>
>



-- 
Nick Loeve