On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 06:17:45AM +0100, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > > Hi, > > Allwinner PMIC on X86, interesting :) > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:51:31 +0000 > Johannes Lundberg <johal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a Lenovo Ideapad Miix 310 that has a Intel CherryTrail CPU and it > > runs FreeBSD quite nicely (with accelerated graphics). What I'm missing is > > battery life status.. > > > > I can get this information using smb (for some reason i2c just returns > > error sending start condition) > > smbmsg -f /dev/smb6 -s 0x68 -c 0xB9 -i 1 -F %d > > > > In emergency this works but it would be nice to have a kernel driver for > > it. > > > > I found the axp2xx driver for Allwinner in the tree. Would it be possible > > to share this with amd64 with not too much effort? > > The first step would be to add acpi attach functions (no idea how this > works), then compare the registers with the pmics supported by the > axp2xx driver to check what regulators are present and controllable (if > any) and also checking the registers for talking to the battery > controller part. > I don't see why it wouldn't work but I haven't checked details on how > supported chips differs with this one. > > > > > If not, all I'm really interested in is battery status so I might just hack > > together a simple driver for that report values to hw.acpi.battery (because > > I don't think there is a sysctl for battery info that aggregates different > > sources?) > > We don't have a generic battery/power supply framework yes.
On an ACPI there is an IOCTL that will collate battery information from anything in the battery devclass. There is an acpi_battery_register function, but what it actually does is set up sysctls. I have a patch to land (hopefully this week) that you would need first. I have a driver for a maxim fuel gauge on a unreasonably complicated laptop that includes an example of what you have to do to be a battery: https://github.com/adventureloop/gpdpocket/blob/master/chvpower/chvpower.c#L148 To support battery on arm (say for the pinebook) we need a more general system. I plan to extract out the current battery code from acpi as a first attempt at this. - [tj] _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"