No APM yet for AMD?

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:08:28AM +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:25:15 -0800
> Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I looked at the patch but had a hard time figuring out what the 
> > functional changes are.  Most of the changes are just using a 
> > convenience pointer to see the struct members and some style 
> > misformatting of the printf arguments.  (The second line of
> > indentation  needs to be 4 spaces indented, see style(9)).
> > 
> > What part of this patch is just the functional change?
> > 
> There are no functional changes at all. It simply trying to be more
> verbose (and forgiving), in case the ioctl did not return advance
> information (such as remaining time, so on) which I believe few ACPI
> bioses incapable of providing such info. In this case, it trying to
> calculate the percentage of remining battery capacity based on Last
> Full Capacity, which current acpiconf ignore.
> 
> # acpiconf -i 0 (without patch)
> Design capacity:        6000 mAh
> Last full capacity:     4000 mAh
> Technology:             secondary (rechargeable)
> Design voltage:         14800 mV
> Capacity (warn):        207 mAh
> Capacity (low):         125 mAh
> Low/warn granularity:   10 mAh
> Warn/full granularity:  25 mAh
> Model number:           JM-6
> Serial number:          0046713127
> Type:                   LION
> OEM info:               Hewlett-Packard
> State:                  not present
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Voltage:                unknown
> 
> # acpiconf -i 0 (patched)
> Design capacity:        6000 mAh
> Last full capacity:     4000 mAh
> Technology:             secondary (rechargeable)
> Design voltage:         14800 mV
> Capacity (warn):        207 mAh
> Capacity (low):         125 mAh
> Low/warn granularity:   10 mAh
> Warn/full granularity:  25 mAh
> Model number:           JM-6
> Serial number:          0046713127
> Type:                   LION
> OEM info:               Hewlett-Packard
> State:                  high 
>                         ^^^^
> Present rate:           unknown
> Remaining capacity:     100%
>                         ^^^^

Well, I would much prefer the remaining capacity still being
unknown in that case then.


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Bruno Ducrot

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