From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rich Townsend Subject: Re: New Smart Battery release (incl. updated embedded controller patches) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:11:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4378B728.4050402@bartol.udel.edu> References: <4376BD90.5080603@bartol.udel.edu> <200511141805.54633.luming.yu@intel.com> <20051114121512.GB1570@elf.ucw.cz> <20051114155810.GA23604@srcf.ucam.org> <20051114160525.GA9288@elf.ucw.cz> <20051114160902.GA23683@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20051114160902.GA23683-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Pavel Machek , "Yu, Luming" , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php