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The former is accessed by the AML .Pq ACPI Machine Language code control methods, and the latter is controlled directly through the ACPI EC .Pq Embedded Controller typically via an SMBus interface. .Pp This driver supports the .Xr sysctl 8 and .Xr ioctl 2 interfaces as well as the .Xr devd 8 event notification interface. .Sh IOCTLS Every ioctl for the .Nm driver takes a single integer value for the battery unit number as an argument, and returns a specific structure for each request. A special unit number .Dv ACPI_BATTERY_ALL_UNITS specifies all of the attached units and reports accumulated information. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_UNITS Vt int Returns the number of battery units in the system. The unit number argument will be ignored. .It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BATTINFO Vt struct acpi_battinfo Returns the following: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va cap Battery capacity in percent, .It Va min Remaining battery life in minutes, .It Va state Current status of the battery encoded in the following: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Dv ACPI_BATT_STAT_DISCHARG Pq 0x0001 Battery is discharging, .It Dv ACPI_BATT_STAT_CHARGING Pq 0x0002 Battery is being charged, or .It Dv ACPI_BATT_STAT_CRITICAL Pq 0x0004 Remaining battery life is critically low. .El .Pp Note that the status bits of each battery will be consolidated when .Dv ACPI_BATTERY_ALL_UNITS is specified. .It Va rate Current battery discharging rate in mW. .Li -1 means not discharging right now. .El .It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BIX Vt struct acpi_bix Returns battery information given by the ACPI .Li _BIX Pq Battery Information object, which is the static portion of the Control Method Battery information. In the case of a Smart Battery attached to SMBus or a Control Method Battery with a .Li _BIF object, this ioctl will build a .Vt struct acpi_bix structure based on the obtained information and return it. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va rev Revision number of the object. There are the following well-known values: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Dv ACPI_BIX_REV_0 Pq 0x0000 A .Li _BIX object in ACPI 4.0. .It Dv ACPI_BIX_REV_1 Pq 0x0001 A .Li _BIX object in ACPI 6.0. .It Dv ACPI_BIX_REV_BIF Pq 0xffff A .Li _BIX object built from the .Li _BIF object found on the system. .El .Pp Note that this field should be checked by using .Fn ACPI_BIX_REV_MIN_CHECK var rev macro when checking the minimum revision number. .It Va units Indicates the units used by the battery to report its capacity and charge rate encoded in the following: .Bl -tag -width indent .It ACPI_BIX_UNITS_MW Pq 0x00000000 in mW .Pq power .It ACPI_BIX_UNITS_MA Pq 0x00000001 in mA .Pq current .El .Pp Note that capacity is expressed in mWh or mAh, and rate is expressed in mW or mA, respectively. .It Va dcap The Battery's design capacity, which is the nominal capacity of a new battery. This is expressed as power or current depending on the value of .Va units . .It Va lfcap Predicted battery capacity when fully charged. Typically this will decrease every charging cycle. .It btech Battery technology: .Bl -tag -width indent .It 0x00000000 Primary cell Pq non-rechargable .It 0x00000001 Secondary cell Pq rechargable .El .It Va dvol Design voltage in mV, which is the nominal voltage of a new battery. .It Va wcap Design capacity of warning. When a discharging battery device reaches this capacity, notification is sent to the system. .It Va lcap Design capacity of low. .It Va cycles .Pq rev 0 or newer The number of cycles the battery has experienced. A cycle means an amount of discharge occurred which was approximately equal to the value of Design Capacity. .It Va accuracy .Pq rev 0 or newer The accuracy of the battery capacity measurement, in thousandth of a percent. .It Va stmax .Pq rev 0 or newer The Maximum Sampling Time of the battery in milliseconds. This is the maximum duration between two consecutive measurements of the battery's capacities specified in .Li _BST . If two succeeding readings of .Li _BST beyond this duration occur, two different results can be returned. .It Va stmin .Pq rev 0 or newer The Minimum Sampling Time of the battery in milliseconds. .It Va aimax .Pq rev 0 or newer The Maximum Average Interval of the battery in milliseconds. This is the length of time within which the battery averages the capacity measurements specified in .Li _BST . The Sampling Time specifies the frequency of measurements, and the Average Interval specifies the width of the time window of every measurement. .It Va aimin .Pq rev 0 or newer The Minimum Average Interval of the battery in milliseconds. .It Va gra1 Battery capacity granularity between .Va low and .Va warning . This is expressed as power or current depending on the value of .Va units . .It Va gra2 Battery capacity granularity between .Va warning and .Va full . This is expressed as power or current depending on the value of .Va units . .It Va model Model number of the battery as a string. .It Va serial Serial number of the battery as a string. .It Va type Type identifier of the battery as a string. .It Va oeminfo OEM-specific information of the battery as a string. .It Va scap .Pq rev 1 or newer Battery swapping capability encoded in the following: .Bl -tag -width indent .It ACPI_BIX_SCAP_NO Pq 0x00000000 Non-swappable .It ACPI_BIX_SCAP_COLD Pq 0x00000001 Cold-swappable .It ACPI_BIX_SCAP_HOT Pq 0x00000010 Hot-swappable .El .El .It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BIF Vt struct acpi_bif .Pq deprecated Returns battery information given by the ACPI .Li _BIF Pq Battery Information object, which was deprecated in ACPI 4.0 specification. The data structure is a subset of .Vt struct acpi_bix . .Pp Note that this ioctl will built a .Vt struct acpi_bif structure based on the obtained information even if this object is not available and a .Li _BIX object is found. .It ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BST Vt struct acpi_bst Returns battery information given by the ACPI .Li _BST Pq Battery Status object, which is the present battery status. In the case of a Smart Battery attached to SMBus, this ioctl will build a .Vt struct acpi_bst structure based on the obtained information and return it. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va state Battery state. The value is encoded in the same way as .Va state of .Vt struct acpi_battinfo . .It Va rate Battery present rate of charging or discharging. The unit of the value depends on .Va unit of .Vt struct acpi_bif . .It Va cap Battery remaining capacity. The unit of this value depends on .Va unit of .Vt struct acpi_bif . .It Va volt Battery present voltage. .El .El .Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES The following .Xr sysctl 8 variables export battery status. Note that they are accumulated status of all of the connected batteries: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va hw.acpi.battery.info_expire Information cache expiration time in seconds. The battery information obtained by .Li _BIX or .Li _BIF object will be stored and reused for successive read access to this MIB within the specified period. .It Va hw.acpi.battery.units Number of battery units in the system. .It Va hw.acpi.battery.state Current battery charging status. This is same as .Va state of .Vt struct acpi_battinfo . .It Va hw.acpi.battery.rate Current battery discharging rate in mW. .It Va hw.acpi.battery.time Remaining battery life in minutes. If the battery is not discharging, the value shows .Li -1 . .It Va hw.acpi.battery.life Battery capacity in percent. .El .Sh EVENT NOTIFICATIONS Battery-related event notifications are sent to the userland via the .Xr devd 8 interface. See .Pa /etc/devd.conf and .Xr devd.conf 5 for more details. Note that notifications are supported only by the Control Method Battery. .Pp The .Nm driver sends events with the following attributes: .Pp .Bl -tag -width "subsystem" -compact .It system .Li ACPI .It subsystem .Li CMBAT .It type The fully qualified battery object path as in the ASL. .It notify An integer designating the event: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Li 0x80 Battery status was changed. .It Li 0x81 Battery information was changed. .El .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr acpi 4 , .Xr acpiconf 8 .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit .An Nate Lawson Aq Mt njl@FreeBSD.org , .An Munehiro Matsuda , .An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@FreeBSD.org , .An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq Mt iwasaki@FreeBSD.org , .An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hselasky@FreeBSD.org , and .An Hiroki Sato Aq Mt hrs@FreeBSD.org . .Pp This manual page was written by .An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@FreeBSD.org and .An Hiroki Sato Aq Mt hrs@FreeBSD.org .