Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 3 authors, 2016-10-25

[RFC] shutdown machine when li-ion battery goes below 3V

From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-25 10:56:13
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On Tue 2016-10-25 12:53:20, Pali Roh?r wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2016 12:24:35 Pavel Machek wrote:
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On Mon 2016-10-24 23:48:47, Pali Roh?r wrote:
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On Monday 24 October 2016 23:41:52 Pavel Machek wrote:
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On Mon 2016-10-24 14:29:33, Tony Lindgren wrote:
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Also, the shutdown voltage can depend on external devices
connected. It could be for example 3.3V depending on eMMC on some
devices while devices with no eMMC could have it at 3.0V.
Actually, I'd like to shutdown at 3.3V or more (like 3.5V), because
going below that is pretty mean to the battery. But if I set
threshold too high, GSM activity will push it below that for a very
short while, and I'll shutdown too soon.

Ideas welcome...
bq27x00 has EDVF flag which means that battery is empty. Maemo with 
bq27x00 driver is configured to issue system shutdown when EDVF is set.

Maybe kernel should issue emergency shutdown e.g. after minute or two 
after EDVF flag is set?
Thanks for pointer.

EDVF seems to be exposed as health. ... but only if battery is
calibrated, AFAICT.
No, EDVF is available also for uncalibrated battery. There are EDV1 and
EDVF flags. Both are set based on battery voltage and some other
parameters from bq EEPROM.
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 if (has_ci_flag && (cache.flags & BQ27000_FLAG_CI)) {
      dev_info_once(di->dev, "battery is not calibrated! ignoring capacity values\n");
Yes, it ignores only capacity values (which needs calibration), not
those raw flags which works also without calibration.
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      ...
      cache.health = -ENODATA;
Take a look at code. Health is not read from hardware unless battery
is calibrated.
								
								Pavel

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