Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:44:17 +0400 From: Dmitry Kolosov <onyx@z-up.ru> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Battery charge limiting Message-ID: <201110190844.17703.onyx@z-up.ru> In-Reply-To: <20111019135942.C21255@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <201110182335.15862.onyx@z-up.ru> <20111019135942.C21255@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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> I've never heard of such a theory as limiting charge to prolong battery > life, not with Lithium Ion batteries anyway; nor have I ever seen any > such as a BIOS option. 'Common' on which brand/s of notebooks? > > Can you provide any links to articles discussing this? http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-104440.html http://askubuntu.com/questions/34452/how-can-i-limit-charging-capacity-to- extend-a-batterys-lifespan Lenovo provides such programs with their new products. A program can hold a battery at 70-80%% while it not used. > I don't think control over a notebook's charging is possible in FreeBSD; > this is usually managed by an Embedded Controller and ACPI merely passes > on the the states reported by that and by the battery itself. May be modern EC provides some controlling methods or so?
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