From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Venda Subject: Re: Acer Travermate 8005 and battery info Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:49:24 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <41617104.2040302@mega.ist.utl.pt> References: <415C270F.5050306@lanil.mine.nu> <20041001102926.GD18786@elf.ucw.cz> <415D8CCF.8050602@lanil.mine.nu> <20041001194739.GE1100@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <41603BA0.9090900@lanil.mine.nu> <20041003203457.GD3379@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041003203457.GD3379-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? | | | 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBYXEEeRy7HWZxjWERAplvAJ91DklAqURohn+B1FKn2Lk5njxs7wCgyXK1 W8ZC15iOzu9rYn7iLgl5xik= =x1p1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl