RE: smartbattery support

Li, Shaohua
2004-10-07T13:43:20Z

You needed an EC-based SMBus host driver (IIRC, some Acer latops defined
such host in DSDT). ACPI spec has the definition for EC-based SMBus host
interface. Second, a sensor driver for reading smart battery information
is required.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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>From: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org [mailto:acpi-devel-
>admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Pedro Venda
>Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:34 PM
>To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>Cc: Pavel Machek
>Subject: Re: [ACPI] smartbattery support
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>i have joined the lmsensors mailing list and the sbs-forum to get some
>more help but i'm still waiting for feedback there, so... mean while
>i'll just study i2c protocols.
>
>i'm thinking in writing a sensor driver to read the battery information
>and then a userland program could format it and do whatever it likes.
>
>as far as acpi goes, i still need some information on how will the i2c
>driver be plugged into the ACPI framework.
>
>regards,
>pedro venda.
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