smart battery

[mds@paradyne.com (Mark D. Studebaker)]

we don't know much about 'smart batteries' but
the smart battery people were the original authors of the SMBus spec.
There are some smart battery specs on the web too -
it may be that the interface is standard.

We'd love to see the GPL code. If anybody would like to write a driver
then we will have the code to give them.

mds



James Klaas wrote:
> 
> I hope this is the right place to post this.
> 
> I don't know if anyone has e-mailed you all about the SonicBlue ProGear
> tablet computer.  This has an ali1535 smbus with an adm1024 thermal
> monitoring chip.  It also has an unidentified smart battery and something
> hanging at 0x69 which is probably a timer (as noted in your documentation).
> 
> The code for reading the battery was released and the actual code for
> retrieving the data from the battery is GPL.  The other code for
> displaying and setting the battery is of unknown license.  After reading
> through the code for the battery and your instructions for creating a chip
> driver I don't think I have the capability to write the driver.  I would
> be happy to post the GPL code if someone else is able to write the driver.
> 
> I'm also confused as to whether the smart battery is the chip (to
> create a driver for) or if there's a separate chip that drives the smart
> battery that needs to be identified.  I can see the top half of the
> circuit board but I am not comfortable with taking the circuit board out
> of the case as it's all packed rather tightly and I don't want to risk
> making the unit non-operational.  I also have no idea what I should be
> looking for.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
>