From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:47:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] ACPI power meter driver?
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To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:18:27AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 07:49 +0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I noticed that section 10.4 of the ACPI 4.0 spec mentions exposing power meter
> > hardware via the DSDT.
> 
> right.
> 
> >   Is anybody currently writing a Linux driver for that
> > power meter interface?
> > 
> do you have an laptop with that implemented?
> can you attach the acpidump output please? :)

No, but I'm working on a prototype to send power use estimates to kvm guests.

Reading between the lines, you sort of imply that you are working on a driver?
If you are, we should coordinate efforts.

--D

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