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32 .Nd support for batteries and sensors in PCI-based Apple Powerbooks
34 .Cd "battery* at pmu?"
38 driver provides support for batteries and hardware sensors found
39 in first generation PCI-based PowerBooks (i.e. Apple Powerbook
40 2400, 3400 and 3500 (also known as Original PowerBook G3).
41 Currently it only exports a few sensors via the
43 interface, including battery charge, voltage, CPU and battery
44 temperature and AC power availability.
50 There is no APM emulation right now and the battery current sensor
51 may return misleading or wrong data.
52 This driver is considered preliminary and may be replaced at some