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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
October 21 & October 25 | Co-Located Events, Tutorials, & Workshops
October 22-24 | Conference
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Wednesday, October 24 • 12:05 - 12:45
The Power-Supply Subsystem - Sebastian Reichel, Collabora

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Do you know how batteries and battery chargers are handled in the Linux kernel subsystem? While not as complex as the DRM subsystem, the power-supply subsystem is a key part of embedded mobile devices running Linux. This talk will give an overview of the subsystem, from hardware (e.g. what's a smary battery), to sysfs and uevent API exposed to userspace. We'll then demonstrate a template driver instantiated from device tree, and review typical mistakes that can occur along the way. Lastly, we'll discuss some of the shortcomings of the subsystem.

Speakers
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Sebastian Reichel

Maintainer, Collabora
Sebastian Reichel works for Collabora's Core team on hardware enablement. He is the kernel subsystem maintainer for MIPI HSI (highspeed synchonous serial interface) and power-supply (battery fuel-gauge/ charger drivers). In the last few years he worked on mainline kernel support for... Read More →


Wednesday October 24, 2018 12:05 - 12:45 BST
Lennox 2, Level -2