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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:23:55 +0200
From:      "Peter Schuller" <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT)
Message-ID:  <20030811192355.GB23117@infidyne.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030811004931.R72106@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20030811013921.GB24952@infidyne.com> <20030811004931.R72106@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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Hello,

> Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD
> does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it.

Nope. I did try it once to see if it would affect the hang problem, but
otherwise no.

> You'd have to examine the DSDT table (and perhaps other namespace tables,
> and dmesg)  to see exactly how the code path changes.  Typically, though,
> the ACPI device tree already has space reserved for two batteries even if
> one is not present.

Ok. Do you know of any documentation on how to do this? (I'm not a kernel
hacker of any kind...)

> > acpi_cmbat0: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
> > acpi_cmbat1: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
> 
> ok so both battery slots do register.

Yeah.

Thanks!

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