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

[Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:48:04 Robert Swindells wrote:
> 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.


Attaching to aed is fine, just wondering if there was something better.

I could not find any reference to nadb for PowerBook 1xx unfornuately.  I 
beleive I use pm_direct.

It makes me wonder if plugging in an external adb keyboard to my PowerBook 
would work?


Best regards and thanks for looking at this,

Nat