Re: Acer Travermate 8005 and battery info

Pavel Machek
2004-10-05T14:39:51Z

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 :-).
Pavel
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