Re: Battery management?

Hi Matt!

What's up!
Have you progressed on this battery management topic?

If you don't have time at the moment, I can try to have a look...

By the way, once battery management works and touchscreen calibration is
ready (any good news, Alain?), I agree it makes sense to go mobile and
chroot to an ext2 partition on a CF card.

    Cheers,

    Michael.

>On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 23:37, Matthew Reimer wrote:
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>>Can you give us an idea of how this battery stuff should work in a 2.6
>>world? Do I presume correctly that in 2.4 it was hooked up through hal,
>>but that hal is gone in 2.6?
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>It did present an interface through the HAL, yes (/proc/hal/battery to
>be specific) but virtually nothing used it. The majority of
>applications interrogated the battery through the APM emulation layer,
>and a few more advanced programs read from /proc/asic/battery directly.
>So the demise of the HAL probably won't have much impact on this code.
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>>Should it be another soc device, say, shamcop_battery.c?
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>I think the right thing to do is to implement the OWM interface as a SoC
>device, then have a battery_ds2760 module (approximately equivalent to
>the old h3600_asic_battery.c) that hooks onto that and in turn exposes
>an interface to applications through drivers/misc/battery.c.
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>p.
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