From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 22:53:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44ACA106564A for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:53:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sghctoma@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9C98FC0A for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so4450909eyd.13 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:53:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=K6TNtks+i0IGJoi1iRitQvmQrwUdvdRm2gJ6PekmaWM=; b=YgmQFwa130cl4ekFozGWfjsFVF33jx+r4M3YkCtHZCgJFhfOe8DZQ0w/iAZuseOldD EADSgMPSWs2Vs9X7EjIK7UlgItmhJ6YUYTspJEu9F7tjLHkMFmcPZoH8dFhRTFXnAXqQ vM8FTuNEI2lhcv+mqP3d45FhW6O3Im+OskjNg= Received: by 10.223.1.7 with SMTP id 7mr13789608fad.30.1319151226666; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (catv-86-101-20-224.catv.broadband.hu. [86.101.20.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c2sm18301753fam.14.2011.10.20.15.53.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:54:44 +0200 From: Tamas Szakaly To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111020225444.GA5902@izebigyomicsoda.praudit.hu> References: <201110182335.15862.onyx@z-up.ru> <201110201434.50399.onyx@z-up.ru> <20111020105558.GB3818@izebigyomicsoda.praudit.hu> <201110201644.25653.onyx@z-up.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201110201644.25653.onyx@z-up.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: Battery charge limiting X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:53:48 -0000 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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" according to tp_smapi sources one could check the DMI device names for the string "IBM ThinkPad Embedded Controller".. if that string is present, the EC should be OK.. plus there are some older TP models that does not report the existence of a good EC through DMI, but they have one - they are whitelisted in the linux driver.. --