Re: Pinebook Pro battery fuel-gauge driver..

Søren Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16 Aug 2020, at 15.02, Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:23:33 +0200
> Søren Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Now that we have display and all working 
> 
> I wouldn't say that, what you have is an hack that will probably cause
> other problem.

Sure, but havn’t found any ill effects yet, I’ll look into getting it done correctly, but for now it makes the pinebookpro useful and self-contained.

>> I hacked up a driver for the cw2015 chip that can tell how much battery is left so I know when to seek an outlet :)
>> 
>> It consists of a patch to the dts (from linux) where all I need is the chiplocation but for compats sake, and the driver.
> 
> Cool, got any link for your code ? Mind to open a review ?

Code was attached to the original mail, I’ll look into getting a review setup, need to figure out how that works on fabricator though.

>> Access is via sysctl, as we have no real way of handling this info on ARM (no acpi, apm etc) AFAIK.
> 
> thj@ started to split battery subsystem from ACPI a while ago iirc.

Any pointers to that ? I admit I didn’t look around too much, considered emulating APM but went with simple sysctl’s.

--
Søren Schmidt
[email protected] / [email protected]
"So much code to hack, so little time"



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