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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
| commit | 5cb84ec742fd33f78c8022863fadaa8d0d93e176 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a81ca3665e6153923e40db7b0d988f8573ab59c /static/netbsd/man4/acpibat.4 | |
| parent | a59214f344567c037d5776879bcfc5fcc1d4d5f6 (diff) | |
feat: Added NetBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/acpibat.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/acpibat.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a438810 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/acpibat.4 @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: acpibat.4,v 1.9 2010/03/25 15:34:30 jruoho Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2004, 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd March 17, 2010 +.Dt ACPIBAT 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm acpibat +.Nd ACPI Battery +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "acpibat* at acpi?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports +.Tn ACPI +batteries. +.Pp +The battery status is made available through the +.Xr envsys 4 +.Tn API . +The battery information can be displayed also with the +.Xr envstat 8 +command: +.Bd -literal -offset 2n +$ envstat -d acpibat0 + Current CritMax WarnMax WarnMin CritMin Unit + present: ON +design voltage: 14.400 V + voltage: 16.267 V + design cap: 74.880 Wh + last full cap: 48.260 Wh + charge: 47.910 5.000% 0.414% Wh (99.27%) + charge rate: N/A +discharge rate: 16.641 W + charging: OFF + charge state: NORMAL +.Ed +.Pp +Depending on the battery, the unit of measurement is either watt-hour +.Tn Pq Wh +or ampere-hour +.Tn Pq Ah +for the capacity related information. +From these the +.Dq charge +is usually the most interesting value, +but it is possible to derive useful information also from the other values. +For example, when +.Xr acpiacad 4 +is disconnected, the +.Dq discharge rate +gives a coarse approximation of the current power consumption. +The ratio between the design capacity and the last full capacity +on the other hand reveals the overall +.Dq health +of deteriorating lithium-ion batteries. +.Sh EVENTS +The +.Nm +driver is able to send events to +.Xr powerd 8 +daemon when a capacity state has been changed. +The new state will be reported as the +.Em fourth +argument to the +.Pa /etc/powerd/scripts/sensor_battery +script. +If a custom capacity limit was set via +.Xr envstat 8 , +the +.Nm +driver will report a +.Em user-capacity +event to the same script when current capacity limit has been reached. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr acpi 4 , +.Xr envsys 4 , +.Xr envstat 8 , +.Xr powerd 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver appeared in +.Nx 1.6 . +.Sh BUGS +The +.Tn ACPI +specifications make a distinction between +.Dq control method batteries +and +.Dq smart batteries . +The +.Nm +driver only supports control method batteries. +Furthermore, +.Nm +does not yet support some additional battery information introduced in the +.Tn ACPI 4.0 +standard. |
