Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:51:48 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: Regulator constraints and userspace consumer |
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:21:24AM +0200, Marcus Folkesson wrote:
> We are working on an Software Defined Radio (SDR) in which power > consumption is an important part of the product. > The "modem" application executes in user space and has the > responsibility to turn the voltage regulators on/off to the radio card > and so on. > When the application goes into power-down mode, there are circuits > that are not used and we are able to reduce the voltage further by set > down a few boost regulators.
I'd expect you have some sort of kernel mode driver for the hardware side of things - shouldn't that be able to manage the regulators for you? What happens when someone deploys the software on a different board?
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