RE: How to populate Battery information through ACPI tables

From: Pallala, Ramakrishna
Date: Tue Feb 19 2013 - 14:39:14 EST



> > Mika, _BIF method returns battery data/struct which is defined Table. 10-233.
>
> Yes, it was just an example. You can have your own custom method for that, lets
> say:
>
> BLAH()
>
> that then returns whatever you need.
>
> > If I want to pass some device specific data seems like I can use
> > _DSM(9.14.1) method and pass custom /device specific data to the driver.
>
> _DSM is also an option, yes.
>
> > And I believe this data format can be anything and private to the device?
> > Can you confirm?
>
> Yes.

Gr8. Appreciate your prompt response and help.
Have nice day :-)
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