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28.Dd February 16, 2020
29.Dt ACPI_BATTERY 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm acpi_battery
33.Nd ACPI battery management subsystem
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device acpi"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39is a driver for battery management features of the ACPI module.
40.Pp
41An ACPI-compatible battery device supports either a Control
42Method Battery interface or a Smart Battery subsystem interface.
43The former is accessed by the AML
44.Pq ACPI Machine Language
45code control methods,
46and the latter is controlled directly through the ACPI EC
47.Pq Embedded Controller
48typically via an SMBus interface.
49.Pp
50This driver supports the
51.Xr sysctl 8
52and
53.Xr ioctl 2
54interfaces as well as the
55.Xr devd 8
56event notification interface.
57.Sh IOCTLS
58Every ioctl for the
59.Nm
60driver takes a single integer value for the battery unit
61number as an argument,
62and returns a specific structure for each request.
63A special unit number
64.Dv ACPI_BATTERY_ALL_UNITS
65specifies all of the attached units
66and reports accumulated information.
67.Bl -tag -width indent
68.It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_UNITS Vt int
69Returns the number of battery units in the system.
70The unit number argument will be ignored.
71.It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BATTINFO Vt struct acpi_battinfo
72Returns the following:
73.Bl -tag -width indent
74.It Va cap
75Battery capacity in percent,
76.It Va min
77Remaining battery life in minutes,
78.It Va state
79Current status of the battery encoded in the following:
80.Bl -tag -width indent
81.It Dv ACPI_BATT_STAT_DISCHARG Pq 0x0001
82Battery is discharging,
83.It Dv ACPI_BATT_STAT_CHARGING Pq 0x0002
84Battery is being charged, or
85.It Dv ACPI_BATT_STAT_CRITICAL Pq 0x0004
86Remaining battery life is critically low.
87.El
88.Pp
89Note that the status bits of each battery will be
90consolidated when
91.Dv ACPI_BATTERY_ALL_UNITS
92is specified.
93.It Va rate
94Current battery discharging rate in mW.
95.Li -1
96means not discharging right now.
97.El
98.It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BIX Vt struct acpi_bix
99Returns battery information given by the ACPI
100.Li _BIX Pq Battery Information
101object,
102which is the static portion of the Control Method
103Battery information.
104In the case of a Smart Battery attached to
105SMBus or a Control Method Battery with a
106.Li _BIF
107object,
108this ioctl will build a
109.Vt struct acpi_bix
110structure based on the obtained information
111and return it.
112.Bl -tag -width indent
113.It Va rev
114Revision number of the object.
115There are the following well-known values:
116.Bl -tag -width indent
117.It Dv ACPI_BIX_REV_0 Pq 0x0000
118A
119.Li _BIX
120object in ACPI 4.0.
121.It Dv ACPI_BIX_REV_1 Pq 0x0001
122A
123.Li _BIX
124object in ACPI 6.0.
125.It Dv ACPI_BIX_REV_BIF Pq 0xffff
126A
127.Li _BIX
128object built from the
129.Li _BIF
130object found on the system.
131.El
132.Pp
133Note that this field should be checked by using
134.Fn ACPI_BIX_REV_MIN_CHECK var rev
135macro when checking the minimum revision number.
136.It Va units
137Indicates the units used by the battery to report its
138capacity and charge rate encoded in the following:
139.Bl -tag -width indent
140.It ACPI_BIX_UNITS_MW Pq 0x00000000
141in mW
142.Pq power
143.It ACPI_BIX_UNITS_MA Pq 0x00000001
144in mA
145.Pq current
146.El
147.Pp
148Note that capacity is expressed in mWh or mAh,
149and rate is expressed in mW or mA,
150respectively.
151.It Va dcap
152The Battery's design capacity,
153which is the nominal capacity of a new battery.
154This is expressed as power or current depending on
155the value of
156.Va units .
157.It Va lfcap
158Predicted battery capacity when fully charged.
159Typically this will decrease every charging cycle.
160.It btech
161Battery technology:
162.Bl -tag -width indent
163.It 0x00000000 Primary cell Pq non-rechargable
164.It 0x00000001 Secondary cell Pq rechargable
165.El
166.It Va dvol
167Design voltage in mV,
168which is the nominal voltage of a new battery.
169.It Va wcap
170Design capacity of warning.
171When a discharging battery device reaches this capacity,
172notification is sent to the system.
173.It Va lcap
174Design capacity of low.
175.It Va cycles
176.Pq rev 0 or newer
177The number of cycles the battery has experienced.
178A cycle means an amount of discharge occurred which was
179approximately equal to the value of Design Capacity.
180.It Va accuracy
181.Pq rev 0 or newer
182The accuracy of the battery capacity measurement,
183in thousandth of a percent.
184.It Va stmax
185.Pq rev 0 or newer
186The Maximum Sampling Time of the battery in
187milliseconds.
188This is the maximum duration between two consecutive
189measurements of the battery's capacities specified in
190.Li _BST .
191If two succeeding readings of
192.Li _BST
193beyond this duration occur,
194two different results can be returned.
195.It Va stmin
196.Pq rev 0 or newer
197The Minimum Sampling Time of the battery in
198milliseconds.
199.It Va aimax
200.Pq rev 0 or newer
201The Maximum Average Interval of the battery in
202milliseconds.
203This is the length of time within which the battery
204averages the capacity measurements specified in
205.Li _BST .
206The Sampling Time specifies the frequency of measurements,
207and the Average Interval specifies the width of the time
208window of every measurement.
209.It Va aimin
210.Pq rev 0 or newer
211The Minimum Average Interval of the battery in
212milliseconds.
213.It Va gra1
214Battery capacity granularity between
215.Va low
216and
217.Va warning .
218This is expressed as power or current depending on
219the value of
220.Va units .
221.It Va gra2
222Battery capacity granularity between
223.Va warning
224and
225.Va full .
226This is expressed as power or current depending on
227the value of
228.Va units .
229.It Va model
230Model number of the battery as a string.
231.It Va serial
232Serial number of the battery as a string.
233.It Va type
234Type identifier of the battery as a string.
235.It Va oeminfo
236OEM-specific information of the battery as a string.
237.It Va scap
238.Pq rev 1 or newer
239Battery swapping capability encoded in the following:
240.Bl -tag -width indent
241.It ACPI_BIX_SCAP_NO Pq 0x00000000
242Non-swappable
243.It ACPI_BIX_SCAP_COLD Pq 0x00000001
244Cold-swappable
245.It ACPI_BIX_SCAP_HOT Pq 0x00000010
246Hot-swappable
247.El
248.El
249.It Dv ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BIF Vt struct acpi_bif
250.Pq deprecated
251Returns battery information given by the ACPI
252.Li _BIF Pq Battery Information
253object,
254which was deprecated in ACPI 4.0 specification.
255The data structure is a subset of
256.Vt struct acpi_bix .
257.Pp
258Note that this ioctl will built a
259.Vt struct acpi_bif
260structure based on the obtained information
261even if this object is not available and a
262.Li _BIX
263object is found.
264.It ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BST Vt struct acpi_bst
265Returns battery information given by the ACPI
266.Li _BST Pq Battery Status
267object,
268which is the present battery status.
269In the case of a Smart Battery attached to SMBus,
270this ioctl will build a
271.Vt struct acpi_bst
272structure based on the obtained information
273and return it.
274.Bl -tag -width indent
275.It Va state
276Battery state.
277The value is encoded in the same way as
278.Va state
279of
280.Vt struct acpi_battinfo .
281.It Va rate
282Battery present rate of charging or discharging.
283The unit of the value depends on
284.Va unit
285of
286.Vt struct acpi_bif .
287.It Va cap
288Battery remaining capacity.
289The unit of this value depends on
290.Va unit
291of
292.Vt struct acpi_bif .
293.It Va volt
294Battery present voltage.
295.El
296.El
297.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
298The following
299.Xr sysctl 8
300variables export battery status.
301Note that they are accumulated status of all of the
302connected batteries:
303.Bl -tag -width indent
304.It Va hw.acpi.battery.info_expire
305Information cache expiration time in seconds.
306The battery information obtained by
307.Li _BIX
308or
309.Li _BIF
310object will be stored and reused for successive
311read access to this MIB within the specified period.
312.It Va hw.acpi.battery.units
313Number of battery units in the system.
314.It Va hw.acpi.battery.state
315Current battery charging status.
316This is same as
317.Va state
318of
319.Vt struct acpi_battinfo .
320.It Va hw.acpi.battery.rate
321Current battery discharging rate in mW.
322.It Va hw.acpi.battery.time
323Remaining battery life in minutes.
324If the battery is not discharging,
325the value shows
326.Li -1 .
327.It Va hw.acpi.battery.life
328Battery capacity in percent.
329.El
330.Sh EVENT NOTIFICATIONS
331Battery-related event notifications are sent
332to the userland via the
333.Xr devd 8
334interface.
335See
336.Pa /etc/devd.conf
337and
338.Xr devd.conf 5
339for more details.
340Note that notifications are supported only by
341the Control Method Battery.
342.Pp
343The
344.Nm
345driver sends events with the following attributes:
346.Pp
347.Bl -tag -width "subsystem" -compact
348.It system
349.Li ACPI
350.It subsystem
351.Li CMBAT
352.It type
353The fully qualified battery object path as in the ASL.
354.It notify
355An integer designating the event:
356.Pp
357.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
358.It Li 0x80
359Battery status was changed.
360.It Li 0x81
361Battery information was changed.
362.El
363.El
364.Sh SEE ALSO
365.Xr acpi 4 ,
366.Xr acpiconf 8
367.Sh AUTHORS
368.An -nosplit
369.An Nate Lawson Aq Mt njl@FreeBSD.org ,
370.An Munehiro Matsuda ,
371.An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@FreeBSD.org ,
372.An Mitsuru IWASAKI Aq Mt iwasaki@FreeBSD.org ,
373.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hselasky@FreeBSD.org ,
374and
375.An Hiroki Sato Aq Mt hrs@FreeBSD.org .
376.Pp
377This manual page was written by
378.An Takanori Watanabe Aq Mt takawata@FreeBSD.org
379and
380.An Hiroki Sato Aq Mt hrs@FreeBSD.org .
381