Re: Support for PowerBook 1xx (mac68k) batteries via envsys(4).

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Nathanial Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> Please see referenced patch for review:
>
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/pbbat.diff
>
> It adds support for PowerBook 1xx batteries based on acpibat(4).
>
> The only thing I don't like is the attachment via aed(4) and the way
> it was handled (blindly attach at aed) so I'm hoping there will be
> alternative suggestions.  It doesn't have a bus address as such so my
> initial pbatt* at adb? was not successful and competed with the aed(4)
> attachment.
>
> I'd really like to wrap up the attachment in aed in #ifdef conditionals
> but was unable to find/use NPBBAT > 0.
>
> I've opened up a PR to track the progress: PR port-mac68k/59228.

Have you looked at how this might work with the nadb(4) code in
sys/dev/adb?

There was a task on me to try to reorganize the config files for mac68k
into ones for systems that could use the new ADB code and ones using the
old code. There are nadb drivers for Mac II and IIfx/Q900/Q950.

The idea was that we would gradually migrate systems to use nadb as more
host drivers got written.