RE: smartbattery support

["Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

>On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:43:20PM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>Some times ago, for a toshiba laptop, I began an i2c-acpi-ec driver:
>ftp://ftp.poupinou.org/acpi/i2c-acpi-ec.c
>
>It's a little bit buggy though but this allowed for me to access the
>sensors
>behind the EC.  The main trouble was that there were not actually a
>smbus declared in the ACPI namespace and it was needed to hardcode
where
>is the base adress in the EC space.
>You may try to start with that maybe, and I guess a real
acpi_ec_smb_probe
>function must be written.
Some Acer laptops define the SMBus host as below:
  		Device (SMBC)
                    {
                        Name (_HID, "ACPI0001")
                        Name (_EC, 0x1820)
                        Device (SBS0)
                        {
                            Name (_HID, "ACPI0002")
                            Name (_SBS, 0x02)
                        }
                    }
The base address and the notification number are defined on the _EC
method.
Please check if you system has such definition.

Thanks,
Shaohua


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