On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> > I'd like to implement a way to allow userspace to read battery status
> > (or percentage). I notice this port of APM interface for ARM
> > architecture «arch/arm/kernel/apm.c» and I think I can use comething
> > similar... what do you think about that?
>
> You might want to look at how acpi is presented in the /proc interface.
> You could hook your battery status routines into the acpi entries:
>
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/{alarm,info,status}
>
> Just a thought.
Forget it. One of the great advantages of MIPS is that Intel has ACPI.
On the open Richter scale for stupidity ACPI in computing is a 9.8.
Ralf
