From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>,
"Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
Rich Townsend <rhdt-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: New Smart Battery release (incl. updated embedded controller patches)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:07:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051121080755.GA22296@poupinou.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051114160902.GA23683-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:09:02PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:05:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Why? The spec explicitly allows smart batteries without the DSDT
> > > providing a control method interface.
> >
> > Then it was probably mistake :-(.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any hardware here which uses smart batteries,
> but Gnome (at least) has switched over to using Hal for displaying
> battery information. It would be pretty straight forward to add support
> for parsing the information from a smart battery driver.
>
It take less time if the EC is programmed to pool the batteries and expose them
via the EC regions, than direct access to batteries from the EC smbus.
--
Bruno Ducrot
-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-13 4:14 New Smart Battery release (incl. updated embedded controller patches) Rich Townsend
[not found] ` <4376BD90.5080603-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-14 10:05 ` Yu, Luming
[not found] ` <200511141805.54633.luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-14 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20051114121512.GB1570-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-14 15:58 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20051114155810.GA23604-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-14 16:05 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20051114160525.GA9288-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-14 16:09 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20051114160902.GA23683-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-14 16:11 ` Rich Townsend
2005-11-14 16:23 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-21 8:07 ` Bruno Ducrot [this message]
2005-11-14 21:34 ` David Gómez
2006-03-01 14:09 ` Roderick van Domburg
2005-11-14 23:01 ` Berthold Cogel
[not found] ` <43791753.2030004-F8dkAKZEjLURtNtAH2Wc8g@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-15 3:11 ` Rich Townsend
[not found] ` <437951CE.7060708-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-15 7:02 ` Olaf Jansen-Olliges
[not found] ` <200511150802.00439.o.jansen-n+qsWun7DryELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-15 9:07 ` Berthold Cogel
2005-11-15 8:57 ` Berthold Cogel
2005-11-15 22:28 ` Berthold Cogel
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2005-11-15 17:39 Lebedev, Vladimir P
2005-12-20 7:27 Yu, Luming
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