Bringing the Samsung Battery Life Extender to Linux
Samsung’s “Battery Life Extender” is a neat feature aimed at keeping your laptop battery healthy for longer, but sadly, it’s not out-of-the-box ready for Linux. In this post, I’ll walk you through the reverse engineering adventure, figuring out the nuts and bolts of this feature using an undocumented SMBus protocol, and how we can make it work on Linux by whipping up a kernel driver and hooking it up with TLP. ...