I think it would be interesting to have such functionality in userspace. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:04 AM Michal Widlok <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Members, > > I looking for a way to set battery charge thresholds on T400 with > coreboot. I know that tp_smapi are not supported, but I found an > interesting thread (it's for X220, but I hope that my would be > similar): > https://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-May/081460.html > > The post says: > "tp smapi depends on lot of SMM/SMI code. So tp-smapi kernel module > asked the Lenovo BIOS to tell the EC to do something. coreboot don't > want to support SMM/SMI APIs, because they are quite dangerous. > But there is another way to get those features back. > We know how to enable it, but we haven't yet create a way to control > this by the user. > > One thing could be a userspace tool executed as root or we add another > CMOS configuration for it. Any idea?" > > Is that mean that EC in lenovo laptops is "known" enough to control > it, but coreboot is not ready to implement this functionality? An if > it is known the is there any literature/posts available that says how > to control it with ectool or something? > > If there are any test needed to be done to help about this subject, > then I can do them on my laptop. Hardware flashing is possible also. > Very best regards, > Michael Widlok > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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