Re: Acer Travermate 8005 and battery info

Pedro Venda
2004-10-05T15:42:09Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>|>>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?
>
>
> I believe that smbus is subset of i2c... So first step would be
> "make it talk with smart battery over i2c".
>
> Anyway I may be wrong. You'll know for sure when the patch starts
> working :-).

sometime in the not-so-near future :-)

i'll start studying i2c to find out the smbus "address" (sorry if this
is a dumb mistake) and try to scan it for the smart battery.

can it be done in userspace? or do i need to start coding in the kernel
right away?

p.s.: do you mind if i reply to you and CC to the list or the reply in
the list es enough?