power management

[Ivan Krstić]

Dan Williams wrote:
> Counterpoint here; cellphones only display 4 - 6 bars for battery.
> While most cellphones longer on standby than the XO is supposed to last,
> most people recharge their phones every day or so which is what's
> expected out of the XO as well.  I'm not sure there's a really good case
> for a battery _display_ that has fine-grained steps.  For other stuff,
> perhaps.

I filed #555 a while back, to MarkF's full support. Richard Hughes left
a comment indicating that emitting events on percentage change is best
for HAL, since the kernel can emit netlink messages for it.

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