VirtualSMC or FAKESMC?

[utof]

You didn't answer my questions.
You might check the SMCBatteryManager.kext source code to see if/how it might implement cycle count.
And the only place cycle count is available from ACPI is in _BIX (read ACPI spec).

Thanks, that's very interesting.

From this source:
https://github.com/acidanthera/Virt...539/Sensors/SMCBatteryManager/ACPIBattery.cpp SMCBatteryManager tries first to get information from BIX and get BIXCycleCount, and if no BIX method available from ACPI then it goes with BIF (but without cycle count).

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks, that's very interesting.

From this source:
https://github.com/acidanthera/Virt...539/Sensors/SMCBatteryManager/ACPIBattery.cpp SMCBatteryManager tries first to get information from BIX and get BIXCycleCount, and if no BIX method available from ACPI then it goes with BIF (but without cycle count).

As one might expect...

 

[inarush]

@RehabMan one thing I noticed recently was that the Thermal Zone temperatures reported by FakeSMC are always the same, stuck at: 7C, 28C and 30C. See the attached image.

Apparently it happens to all users of the GA Z370N-WiFi as well (discussion initiated here #341). I have the suspicion that it started happening after updating the BIOS from version F9 to F10 (but it's hard to tell really because I did so many things at the same time, including reinstalling the system with 10.14.2, updating FakeSMC etc).

Any thoughts on what can be going on? Any suggestions on how to fix that?

 

[RehabMan]

@RehabMan one thing I noticed recently was that the Thermal Zone temperatures reported by FakeSMC are always the same, stuck at: 7C, 28C and 30C. See the attached image.

Apparently it happens to all users of the GA Z370N-WiFi as well (discussion initiated here #341). I have the suspicion that it started happening after updating the BIOS from version F9 to F10 (but it's hard to tell really because I did so many things at the same time, including reinstalling the system with 10.14.2, updating FakeSMC etc).

Any thoughts on what can be going on? Any suggestions on how to fix that?

You should debug your ACPI code to see what it is returning.
ACPIDebug.kext can be used to do that.
You will need to be familiar with the ACPI specification.

 

[postman]

You should debug your ACPI code to see what it is returning.
ACPIDebug.kext can be used to do that.
You will need to be familiar with the ACPI specification.

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