Re: Toshiba Satellite L10-101 Smart Battery System works with patched DSDT

[Fred Thiele <ferdy_news-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

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* Thomas Renninger <trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> [2005-10-19 19:10:23 +0200]:

> Hi,
> 
> I just want to add this one to the list of working Smart Battery Systems 
> with the DSDT patch from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sbs-linux/.
> 
> Are there still efforts for integrating something into the kernel to let 
> those systems run out of box?

That would be really interesting. The problem is that the ec-nospinlock
patch in that project just works for kernels 2.6.10/11/12 but not for
the current 2.6.13 kernel. I already tried to adapt it but i need a lot
more knowledge of acpi/kernel hacking to achieve this.

To summarize it: The above patch lets you see your smart battery systems
but depending on what kernel you are using you will lose interrupts
which results in e.g. lost keypresses if the battery is read. If any of
the kernel hackers could drop a note what is planned to solve these
sbs-related issues it would make some people happy. The patch above is
written by Rich Townsend who seem not to continue his project. 

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Best regards,

Fred Thiele                    GnuPG-Key: 0x4F6BE238 <ferdy_news-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>

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