On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:51:37AM -0800, Andrew Greenberg wrote: > Hi! Well, it went much better than we expected, but it didn't just > automagically work. See: > > http://psas.pdx.edu/news/2012-02-07/ > > Hey Josh: will you take a look at these results, and give us your > opinion? As the insane > let's-port-python-to-grub-and-poke-at-the-BIOS-guy, I think you win for > experience with this sort of thing. I'm hoping we can get together as > soon as possible (although I'd understand if it's not before your thesis > defense on the 24th ;) and poke at this? Maybe build our ACPI table or > something?
Linux has numerous drivers for non-ACPI batteries, and I think we'd have a much easier time just using (or if necessary hacking on) such a driver rather than attempting to shoehorn the details into ACPI, particularly since we don't get to write the BIOS for that board. Take a look at the "sbs-battery" driver (CONFIG_BATTERY_SBS), which might do what we want; it talks to a battery directly using i2c, without using ACPI. I can certainly take a look at the problem in more detail in a couple of weeks. :) - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ psas-avionics mailing list psas-avionics@lists.psas.pdx.edu http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-avionics
