Re: Acer Travermate 8005 and battery info

[Pedro Venda <pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>]

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hi,

Pavel Machek wrote:

|>>Search maillist archives, look up "smart battery specification" in
google.
|>>If you are willing to spend few days writing driver, let me know.
|>
|>Ive checked out some specs now and Im willing to give it a shot but Ive
|>no idea on where to start.. Ive checked out my DSL and I find nothing
|>containing SBS in it. Suggestions?
|
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| Right start probably is drivers/i2c. I collected these links:

i'm willing to participate also. but first, let me see if i
understood... the first step should be building a driver to communicate
with the smbus via i2c. am i right?

after that, we should build an acpi driver that reads battery
information from the smbus and process it adequately...

thanks for the information.
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