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From: Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Jan Rychter <jan-JAsPCFd0eodBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Reading battery consumes a lot of CPU
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:07:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040229180720.GC286@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27jy7f159.fsf-dTJq59+VGzkkCw8IV3R6h0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>

Hi!

> I've reported this a number of times (using various hardware, in fact)
> over the last year or so. Thought I'd resend.

Reading battery status is inherently slow, because battery hw is
connected over slow bus (i2c) and driven from acpi without
interrupts.

								Pavel
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-29 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-28 19:35 Reading battery consumes a lot of CPU Jan Rychter
     [not found] ` <m27jy7f159.fsf-dTJq59+VGzkkCw8IV3R6h0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2004-02-29 18:07   ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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