Re: Smart Battery System driver

Bruno Ducrot
2005-01-17T13:20:23Z

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:13:03AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:23 -0500, Rich Townsend wrote:
>
> > ...provides access to the SBS via a new /proc/acpi/sbs interface, and
> > also provides a "legacy" /proc/acpi/battery interface that current
> > battery-monitoring tools can access. This driver depends on Bruno's
> > i2c-acpi-ec driver, which I have included with my source code since a
> > couple of bug fixes were necessary.
>
> One thing I've been meaning to ask - several Thinkpads have an
> interesting design issue, whereby reading certain smbus addresses can
> render the machine unbootable without a motherboard replacement. As a
> result, i2c-piix refuses to load on Thinkpads. Does something similar
> need to be done for i2c-acpi-ec, or does it only provide i2c access to
> devices connected to the embedded controller?
>

The latter. But its possible that devices connected may be
faulty. I'm not aware of a thinkpad with such i2c access (though
its possible there is one than can be legacy).

--
Bruno Ducrot

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-- Don't know. Don't care.

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