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Date:      Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:19:44 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren_Schmidt?= <soren.schmidt@gmail.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Pinebook Pro battery fuel-gauge driver..
Message-ID:  <5E285422-EA34-4A8C-9BE2-6B3AEED6AD2F@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200816150217.b976cb1f516f7f09b7f35c10@bidouilliste.com>
References:  <CA6993CD-66BA-49A3-9BCA-15A713637A4F@gmail.com> <20200816150217.b976cb1f516f7f09b7f35c10@bidouilliste.com>

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On 16 Aug 2020, at 15.02, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:23:33 +0200
> S=C3=B8ren Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi
>>=20
>> Now that we have display and all working=20
>=20
> I wouldn't say that, what you have is an hack that will probably cause
> other problem.

Sure, but havn=E2=80=99t found any ill effects yet, I=E2=80=99ll look =
into getting it done correctly, but for now it makes the pinebookpro =
useful and self-contained.

>> I hacked up a driver for the cw2015 chip that can tell how much =
battery is left so I know when to seek an outlet :)
>>=20
>> It consists of a patch to the dts (from linux) where all I need is =
the chiplocation but for compats sake, and the driver.
>=20
> Cool, got any link for your code ? Mind to open a review ?

Code was attached to the original mail, I=E2=80=99ll look into getting a =
review setup, need to figure out how that works on fabricator though.

>> Access is via sysctl, as we have no real way of handling this info on =
ARM (no acpi, apm etc) AFAIK.
>=20
> thj@ started to split battery subsystem from ACPI a while ago iirc.

Any pointers to that ? I admit I didn=E2=80=99t look around too much, =
considered emulating APM but went with simple sysctl=E2=80=99s.

--
S=C3=B8ren Schmidt
sos@deepcore.dk / sos@freebsd.org
"So much code to hack, so little time"






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