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[ts-7000] Re: Trying to run on batteries - how to turn off everything.

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Trying to run on batteries - how to turn off everything.
From: "tcumming123" <>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:05:10 -0000
> You don't say what board you are using.

I figured that the ARM boards are basically all the same.

> Way back I wrote a program to do as much turning off of stuff as I could
> on the TS7200. It's called cctl and the source code tar ball is on
my web

Kool! This is what I was looking for. I'm sure that now I'm pointed in
the right direction I can find some more things to tweak myself. Maybe
this would be good to put into a faq somewhere. Since TS advertises
low power, I would think there would be other folks trying to run off
of batteries also.

Thanx again,

tom

> http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/jj/linux/cctl.tgz
> 
> It allows the clocks of the EP9301/2 to be altered at will, the latest
> version also alters the SDRAM refresh rate in step so that refresh
is not
> affected.
> 
> It allows the ethernet PHY to be a turned off - a big power win with the
> TS7200.
> 
> Feedback indicates the program works with TS7260 boards, hence I assume
> TS7250 also.
> 
> On the TS7260 there are extra controls to be able to turn off power
to the
> LCD connector, power to the USB and RS232 level converters
> 
> I believe this is the relevent info:
> 
>  address 0x1200_0000.
>  Bit 0 switches the RS232 converter power (1 = on, 0 = off)
>  Bit 1 switches the USB power
>  Bit 2 switches the lcd header power
> 
> I've been meaning to add control of these - but I've not got the
hardware
> to test it.
> 
> I also understand that Technologics have added some facilities to their
> version of busybox so that freq can be changed etc. There have been
> discussions in this list on this before, so it would be worth you
> searching the archives at Yahoo.
> 
> Jim
> 
>
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