Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:09:55 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf acpiconf.c Message-ID: <200403051709.55254.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040305101907.P30482@root.org> References: <200403050239.i252dI0u007320@sana.init-main.com> <20040304.201932.78712700.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040305101907.P30482@root.org>
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On Friday 05 March 2004 01:24 pm, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <200403051335.55836.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> > > > > "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes: > > : On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:09, Takanori Watanabe wrote: > > : > apm(8) information is only emulated apm status. > > : > The acpiconf -i informations are not available from apm(8) interface. > > : > > : acpiconf -i doesn't show stuff like battery percentage and estimated > > : run time though.. > > : > > : I have a program which does and I'm going to shoe horn it into acpiconf > > : and send diffs if I get some spare time :) > > : > > : It's seriously neat to see how many Watt's your laptop is using when > > : you fiddle with stuff :) > > > > I have hacked my acpiconf to print more battery information too. > > I think this is the wrong way to go. Instead of having N separate > utilities with their different syntax for N power management systems, we > should have one user interface for battery and thermal and the PM system > exports data in that defined format. My proposed plan is: > > * Unified sysctls for battery and thermal (hw.power.XXX) > * Make sure both acpi(4) and apm(4) export information through that > interface. > * Move apm(8) to use those sysctls. > * Remove any non-acpi-specific code from acpiconf(8) Have a 'battstat' command or some such. I thought about having /dev/battX devices to do ioctl's on for battery status. Since batteries really are devices, that might be better than sysctl. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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