Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:14:36 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce Power domain based warming device driver |
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Hi!
> >>falls below certain threshold. These power domains can be considered as > >>thermal warming devices. (opposite of thermal cooling devices). > > > >Would you explain when this is needed? > > > >I'd normally expect "too low" temperature to be a problem during power-on, but at > >that time Linux is not running so it can not provide the heating... > Hi Pavel, > > This is more in the scenario if the system in on and temperature is dipping > (I have been told in colder climates). Idea is to turn on resources so as to > prevent further dipping of temperature if possible.
I guess even that makes sense...
But, out of curiosity, do you know which kind of device is that and in what kind of environment? I mean, theoretically it may make sense on a cellphone, but... I guess you have some fun device and would like to know what it is :-).
Hmm. And we can make this quite generic.
while (too_cold()) barrier();
Wasting power is really easy :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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