| Battery Characteristics | |
| The devicetree battery node provides static battery characteristics. | |
| In smart batteries, these are typically stored in non-volatile memory | |
| on a fuel gauge chip. The battery node should be used where there is | |
| no appropriate non-volatile memory, or it is unprogrammed/incorrect. | |
| Upstream dts files should not include battery nodes, unless the battery | |
| represented cannot easily be replaced in the system by one of a | |
| different type. This prevents unpredictable, potentially harmful, | |
| behavior should a replacement that changes the battery type occur | |
| without a corresponding update to the dtb. | |
| Required Properties: | |
| - compatible: Must be "simple-battery" | |
| Optional Properties: | |
| - voltage-min-design-microvolt: drained battery voltage | |
| - energy-full-design-microwatt-hours: battery design energy | |
| - charge-full-design-microamp-hours: battery design capacity | |
| - precharge-current-microamp: current for pre-charge phase | |
| - charge-term-current-microamp: current for charge termination phase | |
| - constant-charge-current-max-microamp: maximum constant input current | |
| - constant-charge-voltage-max-microvolt: maximum constant input voltage | |
| Battery properties are named, where possible, for the corresponding | |
| elements in enum power_supply_property, defined in | |
| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/power_supply.h | |
| Batteries must be referenced by chargers and/or fuel-gauges | |
| using a phandle. The phandle's property should be named | |
| "monitored-battery". | |
| Example: | |
| bat: battery { | |
| compatible = "simple-battery"; | |
| voltage-min-design-microvolt = <3200000>; | |
| energy-full-design-microwatt-hours = <5290000>; | |
| charge-full-design-microamp-hours = <1430000>; | |
| precharge-current-microamp = <256000>; | |
| charge-term-current-microamp = <128000>; | |
| constant-charge-current-max-microamp = <900000>; | |
| constant-charge-voltage-max-microvolt = <4200000>; | |
| }; | |
| charger: charger@11 { | |
| .... | |
| monitored-battery = <&bat>; | |
| ... | |
| }; | |
| fuel_gauge: fuel-gauge@22 { | |
| .... | |
| monitored-battery = <&bat>; | |
| ... | |
| }; |