Battery Patching

[khronokernel]

At the moment, we direct users to Rehabman's guides on battery patching. I would like to move away from it at some point as users get confused trying to adapt Clover properties to their system. Main things I'd like to implement down the line:

• [ ] DSDT Patching
  • For the most part, Rehabman's guides are fine. EC renames are something to mention
• [ ] Hotpatch coversions
• [ ] Dual Battery SSDT
  • May just redirect users to VirtualSMC repo
• [ ] Cycle Count
  • May just redirect users to VirtualSMC repo

Battery patching in general is not a top priority, so would greatly appreciate any outside contributions like PRs. Would likely go in the ACPI Guide as to fit with the rest.

References:

• Rehabman's how to patch DSDT for working battery status
• Rehabman's Guide to Using Clover to "hotpatch" ACPI
• Dual Battery SSDT
• Sniki's PR
• Cycle Count via _BIX Method

[dreamwhite]

Dear @khronokernel, in those two days I tried (and succeeded) hot-patching an HP laptop battery status using RehabMan's guide. What I've noticed, while reading the guide is that there aren't many images and this can lead the user to confusion. Also, despite the ACPI patching argument is still a hot topic, providing more examples may be better and can avoid lot of confusion.

Regarding this point, would you like that I write (or better, rewrite) RehabMan's battery patching guide both in "hard-patching" (when using directly the DSDT) and "hot-patching" (when using SSDTs+ ACPI Renames)?

Please note that, despite I'll try to do my best, many laptops requires lot of patching, and this process may take up to several hours (FYI it """only""" took me 15 hours to correctly identify the right EC fields and patch them).

Best regards dreamwhite

[dreamwhite]

Update: Dear @dhinakg and @khronokernel I wrote a "small" draft for battery patching using the static patching method (by patching directly DSDT). You can consult the """guide""" here. Please note that I still have to fix many things inside the guide, like avoiding terms repetition and so on. Let me know what you think about it and eventually if you'd like a brief introduction to ACPI patching as per issue #9

[dreamwhite]

Hi there, I think this issue can be closed as ECEnabler by 1Revenger1 does already the same job