On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:36 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 16:29 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > No worries, I'm glad I sent the email before I wrote the HAL code! ;-) > > Sorry, I thought you were already aware of the new tree. Note the uevent > stuff I added recently -- feedback on that would be welcome. I'm about > to actually hook it up and make it trigger when AC is applied/removed > and when there's a 1% change in the battery charge percentage.
Yes, that would be good. > > Okay, apologies if I've got stroppy prematurely. Can I use the APM > > driver for testing on my laptop (when acpi=off)? > > I'm not sure. It might be only for the 'APM emulation' used on other > platforms, not real APM where you call into the APM BIOS. I'll give it a go tonight. > > > > * Why is the AC adapter exported as a battery of type ac? This is simply > > > > wrong, they are _completely_ different types of device. > > > > > > No. They're _both_ power supplies. They can both have measurements of > > > voltage, current, temperature, etc. The external input is just like an > > > infinite battery. > > > > Hmm. I'm not completely convinced (are there any ac adapters that report > > temperature current or voltage?) > > I don't have any. They certainly exist in high-end machines though. And > even when they _don't_ have the temp/current/voltage measurements, > they're _still_ just another power supply, with fewer of the optional > extra properties. Having an entirely separate 'class' of devices just > for them is a lot of duplication for no real reason. Okay, but are they still under /sys/class/battery/ tho? > > but I'll give the cbou tree a go and see how it works. > > If you actually have an XO to test on, then use the one from > ~dwmw2/battery2-2.6 instead -- it solves an EC locking issue. And I'll > be putting the one with updated EC access there soon too. Yes I do - but I don't fancy compiling a new image for the B3 considering the high chance of me getting it wrong :-) Is there any chance you can stick the code into a new kernel rpm for me pls? Thanks, Richard. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
