RE: How to populate Battery information through ACPI tables

[Pallala, Ramakrishna]

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:07:57PM +0000, Pallala, Ramakrishna wrote:
> > I am trying to populate battery related information through ACPI
> > tables and do battery management through non acpi drivers.  Can you
> > tell or point me on how to populate the ACPI tables in FW/BIOS and get
> > them in OS? I am new to ACPI world.
> 
> You should start by reading Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt.
> 
> Also can you describe with bit more details, what you are trying to do? A new
> battery driver that is enumerated from ACPI namespace, perhaps?
> 
> Do you have a DSDT table in hand which we could take a peek?

Thanks Mika for the pointers. I have looked at the documentation.

we already have i2c driver for battery monitoring but the chip needs initialized with
characterization data. We wanted to populate/pass this data through ACPI table to the
i2c slave driver.

How can I do that? Can I pass characterization data through ACPI table to the i2c slave device?

Thanks,
Ram

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