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From: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: RE: smartbattery support
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:43:20 +0800
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To: Pedro Venda <pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>, acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
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You needed an EC-based SMBus host driver (IIRC, some Acer latops defined
such host in DSDT). ACPI spec has the definition for EC-based SMBus host
interface. Second, a sensor driver for reading smart battery information
is required.

Thanks,
Shaohua

>-----Original Message-----
>From: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org [mailto:acpi-devel-
>admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Pedro Venda
>Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:34 PM
>To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>Cc: Pavel Machek
>Subject: Re: [ACPI] smartbattery support
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>i have joined the lmsensors mailing list and the sbs-forum to get some
>more help but i'm still waiting for feedback there, so... mean while
>i'll just study i2c protocols.
>
>i'm thinking in writing a sensor driver to read the battery information
>and then a userland program could format it and do whatever it likes.
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>as far as acpi goes, i still need some information on how will the i2c
>driver be plugged into the ACPI framework.
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>regards,
>pedro venda.
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