Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755940AbZGVFrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:47:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755251AbZGVFrl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:47:41 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:48394 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696AbZGVFrl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:47:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:47:39 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Zhang Rui Cc: "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , lm-sensors , linux-kernel Subject: Re: ACPI power meter driver? Message-ID: <20090722054739.GC20171@plum> Reply-To: djwong@us.ibm.com References: <20090721234957.GB20171@plum> <1248225507.2670.2.camel@rzhang-dt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1248225507.2670.2.camel@rzhang-dt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 26 On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:18:27AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 07:49 +0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I noticed that section 10.4 of the ACPI 4.0 spec mentions exposing power meter > > hardware via the DSDT. > > right. > > > Is anybody currently writing a Linux driver for that > > power meter interface? > > > do you have an laptop with that implemented? > can you attach the acpidump output please? :) No, but I'm working on a prototype to send power use estimates to kvm guests. Reading between the lines, you sort of imply that you are working on a driver? If you are, we should coordinate efforts. --D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/