Just wanted to point out that a buddy of mine just installed the new kernel
and wanted to report that screen blanking & his Aironet 350 & the TrackPoint
support are working just great.

Thanks for all your work, Greg!

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Hughes" <gl2hughes@uwaterloo.ca>
To: "billy ball" <bball@tux.org>
Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>; <adamk@voicenet.com>;
<port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: New kernel behavior [was] Re: z50 TrackPoint driver for CVS...


> Hmm...  IIRC, the NEC vr4121 CPUs have some kind of built-in power
> management support.  I believe this built-in power-management only
> reports something like 3 levels of power information (good, medium and
> low).  Perhaps the 'good' setting is mapped to a reading of 80% or
> higher...
>
> I believe the reason you get a more accurate reading in WinCE is because
> IBM has added their own enhanced battery meter (which is why it only
> shows up in their utilities and not in WinCE proper).  NetBSD probably
> doesn't support this.
>
> Anyway, this may just be total speculation, but I do recall reading
> something about this and thinking it was kind of weird the last time I
> looked at the NEC documentation for the CPU.
>
> - Greg
>
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:30:24PM -0500, billy ball wrote:
> >
> > the hpcapm reporting is from the boot message... my point was that no
> > matter how long the z50 has been in use, '80 percent' is still reported
> > when booting???
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > bball
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > > In message:
<Pine.LNX.4.10.10204051547530.2602-100000@sorrow.ashke.com>
> > >             Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> writes:
> > > : > 2. hpcapm seems to report 80 percent no matter what
> > > :
> > > : Same here.
> > >
> > > Where does one get hpcapm?
> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
>