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Re: [Xen-devel] Battery Management patches

To: "Vauthier, Christophe" <christophe.vauthier@xxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Battery Management patches
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:08:25 +0000
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On 28/01/2009 15:34, "Vauthier, Christophe" <christophe.vauthier@xxxxxx>
wrote:

>             Regarding the discussions that followed the patch release, it¹s
> obvious that even if the patch is supposed to be working on most of the
> hardware that implements CMBattery in their ACPI tables, it might be necessary
> to change these hard-coded values for some machines. My question is: where can
> I find the right I/O ports addresses and the right op codes for a specific
> hardware? I thought it could be found in the ACPI tables but I didn¹t find
> anything. Where have these values been found to develop the patch?
>  
>             Basically, I just would like to understand how to make this patch
> work on my machine.

The values (and indeed the battery-related sections of the virtual ACPI
tables) were basically ripped from the machine that the developer was
testing on.

 -- Keir



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