Re: Acer Travermate 8005 and battery info

Pavel Machek
2004-10-07T09:22:37Z

Hi!

> >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 :-).
>
> Ive read through the (short) smbus specs and the 2.2.14 patch and I dont
> think its very hard to incoperate into the kernel (but Ive never done
> any kernel coding before ;) except for the asm because Im almost totally
> blank on asm.

2.2.14 driver is calling BIOS, right? You do not want to do that.

> The biggest problem I have is that I aint 100% sure that I have smart
> battery because shouldnt my /proc/acpi/battery/* be totally empty then?

Well, you'll never be 100% sure. But if it is Acer then smart battery
is very probable.
Pavel
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