Re: smartbattery support

[Pedro Venda <pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>]

> It doesn't have such definition.
> 
> There were that actually for the EC device:
> 
>                     Field(ERAM, ByteAcc, Lock, Preserve)
>                     {
>                         Offset(0x60),
>                         SMPR,8,
>                         SMST,8,
>                         SMAD,8,
>                         SMCM,8,
>                         SMD0,256,
>                         BCNT,8,
>                         SMAA,8,
>                         ...
>                         ...
> 
> (you can grab the ASL at
> ftp://ftp.poupinou.org/acpi/tosh_3000/tosh3k-100.v13.asl.bz2
> if you want to verify by yourself)
> 
> So my guess was that it's an smbus, and it was the case..
> 
> The only trouble were that I don't have the notification number
> (though I think it was 1, because this laptop received sometimes
> an EC QUERY with this value and there is no _Q01 method in the 
> original asl), but I must admit I haven't checked more.
> 
> For the record, there were 3 sensors, a smartbattery I think, a
> thermal sensor controlling also the CPU fan, and an eeprom.
> Since I got in fact what I wanted to monitor by using acpi methods,
> I haven't investigated more...

bruno: did you actually get the driver working?


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