Re: Battery status

[Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>]

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On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:17 -0400, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> 
> > > I'd like to implement a way to allow userspace to read battery status
> > > (or percentage).  I notice this port of APM interface for ARM
> > > architecture «arch/arm/kernel/apm.c» and I think I can use comething
> > > similar... what do you think about that?
> > 
> > You might want to look at how acpi is presented in the /proc interface.
> > You could hook your battery status routines into the acpi entries:
> > 
> > 	/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/{alarm,info,status} 
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> 
> Forget it.  One of the great advantages of MIPS is that Intel has ACPI.
> On the open Richter scale for stupidity ACPI in computing is a 9.8.

I never said that I liked ACPI, just that I liked the /proc interface.
I'm not really a fan of putting an interpreter into the system
firmware...

Clark

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Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>

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