Re: Battery charge cycles
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:46 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>
> > I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux
> > too?
> >
> > http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html
>
> Very interesting... Benjamin, is there any chance to find some code in
> Darwin for that ? I really hope they didn't keep that
> proprietary... (and would be interested in knowing whether this works
> on a rev1 PB too)
>
> Maybe it'd give me some information on the real state of my batteries,
> because I just can't believe they degraded so fast.
The PMU driver is not open source in driver unfortunately. It may be
possible to dig into the disassembly and figure out what command is used
though.
Ben.
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