Announcing pbbat(4).

Got a PowerBook 1xx (excluding the 150/190). ?

Want to monitor the battery and AC adapotor for auto shutdown or dim screen 
brightness to save battery?

It's now possible with pbbat(4) added to NetBSD-current (10.99.12).

Just uncomment pbbat(4) from the GENERIC kernel and rebuild the kernel.

It will give an indication of power consumption and also feed battery voltages 
/ and charger / battery remaing capacity to the rnd(9) framework for extra 
randomness.


Enjoy!

Nat

PS: What needs to happen next is a sysctl for screen bightness so it would be 
possible to script for low power / ac adaptor connected events with powerd(8).


This will be possible very soon....