Re: New SmartBattery DSDT-based controller

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> > Eventually, the modified DSDTs can be put back into the ACPI4Linux 
> > database; but I'm more interested at the moment in ironing out any 
> > glitches in the code.
> 
> While this is a neat hack, there's no real way that distributions are
> ever going to adopt this approach - DSDTs are copyrighted by the
> vendors, and without permission they're not going to be distributed by
> the Linux vendors. The alternative approach of modifying the user's DSDT
> on the fly is likely to be excessively fragile. The only reasonable
> solution is to provide a mechanism to read the battery directly.

Actually, it is now time to call Acer saying "hey, Linux community
actually did the work for you; add this to your BIOS and your
batteries will start to work under Linux as control-method
batteries". It would help if you could release that DSDT part
under public domain; it is unlikely that Acer is going to put GPLed
part into their BIOS.
								Pavel
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