From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Battery status
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:17:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050722191732.GB3770@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122044036.10743.5.camel@riff>
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> > I'd like to implement a way to allow userspace to read battery status
> > (or percentage). I notice this port of APM interface for ARM
> > architecture «arch/arm/kernel/apm.c» and I think I can use comething
> > similar... what do you think about that?
>
> You might want to look at how acpi is presented in the /proc interface.
> You could hook your battery status routines into the acpi entries:
>
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/{alarm,info,status}
>
> Just a thought.
Forget it. One of the great advantages of MIPS is that Intel has ACPI.
On the open Richter scale for stupidity ACPI in computing is a 9.8.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-22 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 14:22 Battery status Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 14:53 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 15:14 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 15:25 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 15:34 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 19:08 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-23 12:17 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 19:17 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-07-22 21:10 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 21:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-22 22:07 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 22:16 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-22 23:14 ` Alan Cox
2005-07-25 12:00 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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