Re: smartbattery support

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

>>my acer travelmate 4001WLmi looks like this:
>>
>>Device (SMBC)
>>                    {
>>                        Name (_HID, "ACPI0001")
>>                        Name (_EC, 0x1820)
>>                        Device (SBS0)
>>                        {
>>                            Name (_HID, "ACPI0002")
>>                            Name (_SBS, 0x02)
>>                        }
>>                    }
>>
> 
> 
> This mean that you have a SMB-HC with adress 0x18 and query 0x20.
> You may try i2c-acpi-ec, but you have to change:
> #define SMBUS_ADDRESS_TO_HAVE 0x60
> to 
> #define SMBUS_ADDRESS_TO_HAVE 0x18
> Also, you need to get at least i2c-core in your kernel for this to work.
> 
> Note that this code have 2 years... and if there is more than one EC in
> your system, this may not work.  In that case, could you please send me
> a dump of the acpi tables?
> btw, there is two batteries, because 'Name (_SBS, 0x02)'.

hello bruno,

i have been reading the acpi specification, but that information you 
gave me has worth many hours of searching.

i have successfully insmod'ed and i have some results:

archon i2c-acpi-ec # i2cdetect
Error: No i2c-bus specified!
Syntax: i2cdetect [-f] [-q|-r] I2CBUS [FIRST LAST]
   I2CBUS is an integer
   With -f, scans all addresses (NOT RECOMMENDED)
   With -q, uses only quick write commands for probing (NOT RECOMMENDED)
   With -r, uses only read byte commands for probing (NOT RECOMMENDED)
   If provided, FIRST and LAST limit the probing range.
   i2cdetect -l lists installed busses only
   Installed I2C busses:
     i2c-4       unknown         ACPI EC SMBus 2.0 adapter at 0018 
  Algorithm unavailable
     i2c-3       unknown         crt2 
  Algorithm unavailable
     i2c-2       unknown         vga 
  Algorithm unavailable
     i2c-1       unknown         dvi 
  Algorithm unavailable
     i2c-0       unknown         monid 
  Algorithm unavailable
archon i2c-acpi-ec # i2cdetect 4
   WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and 
worse!
   I will probe file /dev/i2c-4.
   I will probe address range 0x03-0x77.
   You have five seconds to reconsider and press CTRL-C!

      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
10: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
20: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
30: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
40: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX 4c XX XX XX
50: 50 51 52 53 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
60: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
70: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
archon i2c-acpi-ec #

so some devices were detected at the bus address 0x18.

i'll dig in the code/documentation to try and auto-detect the smbus 
address first, while learning a bit more acpi.

thanks for the useful information.

why did you stop developing the module?

regards,
pedro venda.


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