Re: New Smart Battery release (incl. updated embedded controller patches)

[Rich Townsend <rhdt-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@public.gmane.org>]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:05:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
>>>Why? The spec explicitly allows smart batteries without the DSDT 
>>>providing a control method interface.
>>
>>Then it was probably mistake :-(.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have any hardware here which uses smart batteries, 
> but Gnome (at least) has switched over to using Hal for displaying 
> battery information. It would be pretty straight forward to add support 
> for parsing the information from a smart battery driver.
> 

Exactly. That's what I intend to do, once the remaining EC issues are resolved 
(there will have to be a small kernel patch to expose the EC SMBus to userspace, 
but that's no big deal)

cheers,

Rich



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