acpisbs(4)

acpisbs4

Acpi smart battery subsystem

Usage

acpisbs* at acpi?

Overview

The acpisbs driver supports the ACPI Smart Battery subsystem and provides information about the Smart Battery devices contained within it. Battery status is updated every 30 seconds, as well as in response to events from the subsystem. Battery status can be monitored using sysctl(8) or sensorsd(8).

Caveats

The acpisbs driver does not currently support more than one battery.

Releases

Unchanged in 21 releases since OpenBSD 6.1.

  1. 6.1–8.0

History

The acpisbs driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.1.

Authors

The acpisbs driver was written by joshua stein ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.