You should do a lot of work to implement the function in formal way. But
it seems to be easy to display some kernel message when battery level is
low. Sato-san is going to commit the quick hack into the current tree. The
hack will print a message if the value retrived from A/D port is lower than
specified value. Please don't forget that you should find appropriate value
for your machine.

----- Original Message -----
From: "katsumi liquer" <katsumi@decepticonz.net>
To: "TAKEMURA Shin" <takemura@netbsd.org>
Cc: <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Hello + Questions!


> > > A) how does one get the status of the battery? Is it possible right
now?
> *snip*
> > but the kernel don't make use of the value. The value is just thrown
away.
> > You can specify -v (verbose) option when you boot the kernel to see
>
> ok.. I can see this; is their any way we can probe for this value later on
after we have booted? The only reason I am curious, is becuase right now my
unit ( even when suspended ) just goes through it's main battery power and
then the backup battery until it eventually just shuts off -- but I have no
way to know when ;)