Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver

Pedro Venda
2005-01-23T17:36:21Z

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Pavel Machek wrote:
| Hi!
|
|
|>|>I do this because everything in /lib/modules/XXX/kernel/* gets
|>|>clobbered when you do a make modules_install from the kernel source
|>|>tree;
|>|
|>|
|>| I see.
|>|
|>|
|>|>I have recently realized that the whole SBS functionality can be
|>|>implemented in terms of control methods in the DSDT, without the
|>|>need for any kernel drivers.
|>|
|>|
|>| Nice. This would require a kernel recompile/reboot for each DSDT
|>| modification...
|>
|>not nice, I guess. 99.9% of the interested (me included) wouldn't be able to
|>patch their DSDT and with generated ASL (is it ASL or AML or... ACPI
|>language)
|>code for their specific case.
|>
|>but academically interesting :-)
|
|
| Well, we could just ask Acer to include that SBS code into their
| DSDTs....
| Pavel

which apparently is a waste of time. from some e-mails I've seen around, they
are very reluctant to support anything linux-related.

regards,
pedro venda.
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Pedro João Lopes Venda
email: pjvenda-pQd4kjVL+REh2FBCd0jGRA@public.gmane.org
http://arrakis.dhis.org
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