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Date:      Wed, 26 May 2004 22:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: APM Patch - review
Message-ID:  <20040526220744.T87978@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A8470647F8A8@orsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
References:  <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A8470647F8A8@orsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

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On Tue, 25 May 2004, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Valid values for remaining battery life are 0xFF, and 0-100.
>
> -1, 255 and 0xFF are the SAME when looking at an 8 bit value. Since this
> 8 bit value was sign-extended to 32 bits to go into ai_batt_time, if it
> was 0xFF, it is now 0xFFFFFFFF, and you will never see 0x000000FF.

Correct.  Liam, can you add a printf for the unknown case (%x) that gives
the actual value?

-Nate



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