Freescale IMX6 active cooling

Catalin Crenguta catalin.crenguta at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 04:49:26 PST 2015


On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would recommend you take a look at the work that xobs did for the
> Novena Heirloom.  If you look at this branch starting around Aug 3 you
> can see where he has converted iMX6 to use generic thermal zones and
> adds support for for an active cooling device/fan.
> https://github.com/xobs/novena-linux/commits/v3.19-novena-etnadrm-r3?page=3
>
> -Jon
Thank you!
I have patched my 4.3 kernel (they don't apply cleanly but they are
straight forward to modify), added a gpio-fan and the corresponding
thermal-zone in my DTB and it works!
Sean Cross, are you interested in bringing this to mainline?



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