ACPI/PMU procfs HAL test program. Version 002.

Richard Hughes ee21rh at surrey.ac.uk
Mon Jan 24 09:56:39 PST 2005


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:38:04 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> We have 2 types of batteries in ACPI:
> 1) Control Method Battery
> 2) Smart-Battery 

Didn't know that... I'm learning lots today. :-)

> Type 1 (CMB) is well supported in linux ACPI.
> Type 2 (SMB) is not officially supported in linux ACPI yet, there are some
> patches, and some ACER notebooks are reported to work with the patches.
> 
> The type 2 batteries (SMB), have some extra attributes we might want to
> export, like "temperature" and "cycle count" attributes.

Sure, do you know if they are attributes in sysfs, or in procfs?

Richard

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