[PATCH v3 3/4] arm64: dts: apple: t8103: Add i2c nodes
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Nov 25 07:50:28 PST 2021
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 6:42 AM Hector Martin <marcan at marcan.st> wrote:
> Pulling down an I2C bus between transactions is not legal; the idle
> state has to be high.
Oh right.
> Apple are actually not very good at configuring GPIOs for power saving;
> e.g. the I/Os for that unused i2c bus still have their input buffers
> turned on, which is a waste of power. If they wanted to save the
> smallest drop of power they'd turn that off. But the effect of this is
> so trivial it probably makes no difference in the context of a laptop,
> nevermind a desktop like the Mac Mini.
Hm that's true. The saying is that 99% is the backlight, the remaining 1% isn't
so significant after that.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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