From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug (?) in ACPI info reporting
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:23:32 +0400
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Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:46 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>   
>> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>>     
>>> I just stuck an HP ev089aa battery into a dv6000 family laptop. Here is
>>> the content of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> present:                 yes
>>>> design capacity:         6000 mAh
>>>> last full capacity:      8384 mAh
>>>> battery technology:      rechargeable
>>>> design voltage:          14800 mV
>>>> design capacity warning: 422 mAh
>>>> design capacity low:     254 mAh
>>>> capacity granularity 1:  10 mAh
>>>> capacity granularity 2:  25 mAh
>>>> model number:            Primary
>>>> serial number:            
>>>> battery type:            LION
>>>> OEM info:                Hewlett-Packard
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>       
>> Could it be that this is not default battery for your system (with 
>> default being 6000)?
>> Please send in acpidump output.
>>     
>
> acpidump output follows, but indeed this is not the default battery for
> the system. It is a high capacity that is also designed for this product
> line.
>
>   
Then this is most probably shortcoming of BIOS on your machine,
design values are hardcoded, while actual values are read from battery 
itself.
> As long as charging works okay I can't say as how I'm really bothered,
> but it seemed worth checking.
>
> DSDT @ 0x7fed364b
>   0000: 44 53 44 54 45 85 00 00 01 2f 48 50 20 20 20 20
> DSDTE..../HP    
>   
Please do it as attachment, we can't parse split lines.