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Subject: Re: Acer laptops - smart battery support
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H. S. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/acpi/ , I understand the
> support for smart batteries isn't yet implemented on FreeBSD.. is there
> any plan to implement this? I can test patches etc, as I'm sure many other
> people can too, and this support would be a big plus for us who use our
> favourite OS on such a laptop.

Good news, it's already being worked on.  Hans Petter Selasky has kindly 
submitted some code that he developed and I'm in the process of 
integrating it.  It will be a little while though before it hits cvs as 
I'm extremely busy with work and it's not a small project.

-- 
Nate