Pinebook Pro battery fuel-gauge driver..

[Søren Schmidt]

On 16 Aug 2020, at 15.02, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:23:33 +0200
> Søren Schmidt <soren.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> Now that we have display and all working 
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> I wouldn't say that, what you have is an hack that will probably cause
> other problem.

Sure, but havn’t found any ill effects yet, I’ll look into getting it done correctly, but for now it makes the pinebookpro useful and self-contained.

>> I hacked up a driver for the cw2015 chip that can tell how much battery is left so I know when to seek an outlet :)
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>> It consists of a patch to the dts (from linux) where all I need is the chiplocation but for compats sake, and the driver.
> 
> Cool, got any link for your code ? Mind to open a review ?

Code was attached to the original mail, I’ll look into getting a review setup, need to figure out how that works on fabricator though.

>> Access is via sysctl, as we have no real way of handling this info on ARM (no acpi, apm etc) AFAIK.
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> thj@ started to split battery subsystem from ACPI a while ago iirc.

Any pointers to that ? I admit I didn’t look around too much, considered emulating APM but went with simple sysctl’s.

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Søren Schmidt
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"So much code to hack, so little time"