On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, guys. Just wanted to propose including a couple of mobile
> device-related packages in the default install in 2009:
>
> barry-charge
> synce-hal
>
> the first one basically is needed so that when you plug in a Blackberry,
> it charges. Blackberries, for some asinine reason, require a
> (non-standard) power draw of 550mA; if they see a (standard) power draw
> of 500mA, they just don't charge. barry-charge includes a small binary
> which sets the USB ports to output 550mA of power, and a udev rule which
> just runs the binary when a Blackberry is plugged in. It's very small
> and won't lead to any extra resource usage unless you actually plug in a
> Blackberry.

Yeah I proposed that before 2008.0 even came out iirc.

However, my understanding was that "normal" is 100 mA and barry-charge
sets it to 500 mA. I can test this if necessary.

And, by the way, I have a VIA C3 that I can test with barry-charge.

Austin