Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:03:41 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming Message-ID: <20090113170341.GE57874@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <496839E2.1020808@gmail.com> References: <496839E2.1020808@gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 10), michael said: > several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom > inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i > have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the > available windows programs? > what i'm asking is if freebsd actually supports sending of data over > the i2c bus from userland. The iic driver seems to provide ioctls for userland manipulation; as long as you know what to send (and assuming the kernel driver finds the i2c chip), it should work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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