From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 May 2002 08:21:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 May 2002 08:21:01 -0400 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:57334 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 May 2002 08:21:01 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: To: dave@AFRInc.com Cc: John Ruttenberg , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:20:37 +0100 Message-ID: <19261.1021724437@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org dave@AFRInc.com said: > I've got the same laptop with one battery, but I'm using ACPI. None > of the current user-space utilities parse this stuff particularly well > (the filenames in /proc/acpi have changed), but the data all look > reasonable. Those data also come straight from the BIOS. The ACPI code on those laptops is all just traps into the SMM BIOS. I'd guess it's running exactly the same code inside. -- dwmw2