To follow up on my last email, I have done some more research and it would appear that these are onboard devices that are presently not common in consumer devices. ( If anyone has more information on how to get power consumption data from standard desktops/laptops without the use of external measurement equipment, I would greatly appreciate it) Regards, Ken On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Ken O'Brien <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings, > > In the ACPI spec there is a section (10.4) on power meters. Can someone > clarify what these meters physically are? Are they external devices or > onboard chips? If they're the latter, how can I detect them and read their > data in userspace? > > Regards, > > Ken -- Ken O'Brien PhD Researcher Simulation Science and Extreme Events Cluster, 3B1 , UCD CASL, 8 Belfield Business Park, Dublin 4, Ireland. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
