My guess is that it incorporates some constants that depend on the actual battery pack. Note that I don't actually KNOW that it's in the battery, but previous ML posts by folks at Openmoko refer to it as 'in the battery', and with a bl-5c installed almost all battery-related entries in sysfs are unpopulated.
j On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:13:00 -0400, "Charles Pax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK, I have a few Nokia batteries laying around, BL-5c and BL-6c, and >> desktop chargers. They power the Freerunner fine, and seem to charge > when >> they're in the FR plugged in. But the Freerunner doesn't know what to > do >> with them apart from that, presumably since they lack the Openmoko > coulomb >> counter circuit. > > > The coulomb counter circuitry is in the battery? Why isn't this on the > board > itself? > > -Charles _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
