Just wondering if anyone knows about tools for laptop battery repair that might run under OpenBSD. The "smart batteries" have a microprocessor that interfaces to the cells and talks to the cpu over an smbus. ACPI talks to that bus, but it can't help with broken batteries or replacing cells.
Google for a pdf called BH_US_11_Miller_Battery_Firmware_Public_WP.pdf if you want to read more. There's a semi-commercial program called be2works designed for cell replacement and such, but the full version is $300. Is there anything open source? BTW: Miller's bibliography at the end of the pdf above is quite good. I was able to download all the pdfs he mentions. Most are from TI. Unfortunately he was working with Apple hardware, I've got Dell. But he got in there with logic analyzers and the whole bit. Alan -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
