Battery charge limiting

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:44:24PM +0400, Dmitry Kolosov wrote:
> > for thinkpads, there is no need to reverse any win32 stuff.. there is a
> > linux driver that accesses the EC and is able to get/set battery
> > parameters (among other stuff, like HDAPS) called tp_smapi
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpctl/)
> 
> Ok. It looks like not every EC capable to be controlled, there is some kind of 
> active and passive ECs. How we can guess the one IS capable? May be presence 
> of some ACPI methods is the symptom of such capabilities? Any suggestions?

My first mail seems to have gone to /dev/null ...

If someone likes to port tpctl to FreeBSD, there was already a try made
by Tobias Kirschstein, who ported the hdaps part of tpctl. The original
site gives a 404, but I re-uploaded it here:
http://bsd-geek.de/FreeBSD/hdaps.tgz
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