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For thermal management strategy you might be interested on limit the input power for a power supply. We already have current limit but basically what we probably want is to limit power. So, introduce the input_power_limit property. Although the common use case is limit the input power, in some specific cases it is the voltage that is problematic (i.e some regulators have different efficiencies at higher voltage resulting in more heat). So introduce also the input_voltage_limit property. This happens in one Chromebook and is used on the Pixel C's thermal management strategy to effectively limit the input power to 5V 3A when the screen is on. When the screen is on, the display, the CPU, and the GPU all contribute more heat to the system than while the screen is off, and we made a tradeoff to throttle the charger in order to give more of the thermal budget to those other components. So there's nothing fundamentally broken about the hardware that would cause the Pixel C to malfunction if we were charging at 9V or 12V instead of 5V when the screen is on, i.e. if userspace doesn't change this. What would happen is that you wouldn't meet Google's skin temperature targets on the system if the charger was allowed to run at 9V or 12V with the screen on. For folks hacking on Pixel Cs (which is now outside of Google's official support window for Android) and customizing their own kernel and userspace this would be acceptable, but we wanted to expose this feature in the power supply properties because the feature does exist in the Emedded Controller firmware of the Pixel C and all of Google's Chromebooks with USB-C made since 2015 in case someone running an up to date kernel wanted to limit the charging power for thermal or other reasons. This patch exposes a new property, similar to input current limit, to re-configure the maximum voltage from the external supply at runtime based on system-level knowledge or user input. Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org> Acked-by: Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@diasemi.com> Reviewed-by: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.