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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt | 143 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt | 388 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/scan_handlers.txt | 77 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/video_extension.txt | 106 |
6 files changed, 711 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt index e20b6daaced..f51861bcb07 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt @@ -45,13 +45,35 @@ directory apei/einj. The following files are provided. injection. Before this, please specify all necessary error parameters. +- flags + Present for kernel version 3.13 and above. Used to specify which + of param{1..4} are valid and should be used by BIOS during injection. + Value is a bitmask as specified in ACPI5.0 spec for the + SET_ERROR_TYPE_WITH_ADDRESS data structure: + Bit 0 - Processor APIC field valid (see param3 below) + Bit 1 - Memory address and mask valid (param1 and param2) + Bit 2 - PCIe (seg,bus,dev,fn) valid (param4 below) + If set to zero, legacy behaviour is used where the type of injection + specifies just one bit set, and param1 is multiplexed. + - param1 This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of - parameter depends on error_type specified. + parameter depends on error_type specified. For example, if error + type is memory related type, the param1 should be a valid physical + memory address. [Unless "flag" is set - see above] - param2 This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of - parameter depends on error_type specified. + parameter depends on error_type specified. For example, if error + type is memory related type, the param2 should be a physical memory + address mask. Linux requires page or narrower granularity, say, + 0xfffffffffffff000. + +- param3 + Used when the 0x1 bit is set in "flag" to specify the APIC id + +- param4 + Used when the 0x4 bit is set in "flag" to specify target PCIe device - notrigger The EINJ mechanism is a two step process. First inject the error, then diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt b/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt index febbb1ba4d2..784841caa6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT builds the image into the kernel. When to use this method is described in detail on the Linux/ACPI home page: -http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php +https://01.org/linux-acpi/documentation/overriding-dsdt diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt index 54469bc81b1..e182be5e3c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -60,11 +60,82 @@ If the driver needs to perform more complex initialization like getting and configuring GPIOs it can get its ACPI handle and extract this information from ACPI tables. -Currently the kernel is not able to automatically determine from which ACPI -device it should make the corresponding platform device so we need to add -the ACPI device explicitly to acpi_platform_device_ids list defined in -drivers/acpi/scan.c. This limitation is only for the platform devices, SPI -and I2C devices are created automatically as described below. +DMA support +~~~~~~~~~~~ +DMA controllers enumerated via ACPI should be registered in the system to +provide generic access to their resources. For example, a driver that would +like to be accessible to slave devices via generic API call +dma_request_slave_channel() must register itself at the end of the probe +function like this: + + err = devm_acpi_dma_controller_register(dev, xlate_func, dw); + /* Handle the error if it's not a case of !CONFIG_ACPI */ + +and implement custom xlate function if needed (usually acpi_dma_simple_xlate() +is enough) which converts the FixedDMA resource provided by struct +acpi_dma_spec into the corresponding DMA channel. A piece of code for that case +could look like: + + #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI + struct filter_args { + /* Provide necessary information for the filter_func */ + ... + }; + + static bool filter_func(struct dma_chan *chan, void *param) + { + /* Choose the proper channel */ + ... + } + + static struct dma_chan *xlate_func(struct acpi_dma_spec *dma_spec, + struct acpi_dma *adma) + { + dma_cap_mask_t cap; + struct filter_args args; + + /* Prepare arguments for filter_func */ + ... + return dma_request_channel(cap, filter_func, &args); + } + #else + static struct dma_chan *xlate_func(struct acpi_dma_spec *dma_spec, + struct acpi_dma *adma) + { + return NULL; + } + #endif + +dma_request_slave_channel() will call xlate_func() for each registered DMA +controller. In the xlate function the proper channel must be chosen based on +information in struct acpi_dma_spec and the properties of the controller +provided by struct acpi_dma. + +Clients must call dma_request_slave_channel() with the string parameter that +corresponds to a specific FixedDMA resource. By default "tx" means the first +entry of the FixedDMA resource array, "rx" means the second entry. The table +below shows a layout: + + Device (I2C0) + { + ... + Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized) + { + Name (DBUF, ResourceTemplate () + { + FixedDMA (0x0018, 0x0004, Width32bit, _Y48) + FixedDMA (0x0019, 0x0005, Width32bit, ) + }) + ... + } + } + +So, the FixedDMA with request line 0x0018 is "tx" and next one is "rx" in +this example. + +In robust cases the client unfortunately needs to call +acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_index() directly and therefore choose the +specific FixedDMA resource by its index. SPI serial bus support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -130,7 +201,7 @@ passing those. One idea is to return this in _DSM method like: Return (Local0) } -Then the at25 SPI driver can get this configation by calling _DSM on its +Then the at25 SPI driver can get this configuration by calling _DSM on its ACPI handle like: struct acpi_buffer output = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL }; @@ -151,19 +222,9 @@ ACPI handle like: I2C serial bus support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The slaves behind I2C bus controller only need to add the ACPI IDs like -with the platform and SPI drivers. However the I2C bus controller driver -needs to call acpi_i2c_register_devices() after it has added the adapter. - -An I2C bus (controller) driver does: - - ... - ret = i2c_add_numbered_adapter(adapter); - if (ret) - /* handle error */ - - of_i2c_register_devices(adapter); - /* Enumerate the slave devices behind this bus via ACPI */ - acpi_i2c_register_devices(adapter); +with the platform and SPI drivers. The I2C core automatically enumerates +any slave devices behind the controller device once the adapter is +registered. Below is an example of how to add ACPI support to the existing mpu3050 input driver: @@ -199,6 +260,8 @@ the device to the driver. For example: { Name (SBUF, ResourceTemplate() { + ... + // Used to power on/off the device GpioIo (Exclusive, PullDefault, 0x0000, 0x0000, IoRestrictionOutputOnly, "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer,,) @@ -206,22 +269,46 @@ the device to the driver. For example: // Pin List 0x0055 } + + // Interrupt for the device + GpioInt (Edge, ActiveHigh, ExclusiveAndWake, PullNone, + 0x0000, "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer,,) + { + // Pin list + 0x0058 + } + ... - Return (SBUF) } + + Return (SBUF) } These GPIO numbers are controller relative and path "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0" specifies the path to the controller. In order to use these GPIOs in Linux -we need to translate them to the Linux GPIO numbers. +we need to translate them to the corresponding Linux GPIO descriptors. + +There is a standard GPIO API for that and is documented in +Documentation/gpio/. + +In the above example we can get the corresponding two GPIO descriptors with +a code like this: -The driver can do this by including <linux/acpi_gpio.h> and then calling -acpi_get_gpio(path, gpio). This will return the Linux GPIO number or -negative errno if there was no translation found. + #include <linux/gpio/consumer.h> + ... + + struct gpio_desc *irq_desc, *power_desc; + + irq_desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, NULL, 1); + if (IS_ERR(irq_desc)) + /* handle error */ + + power_desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, NULL, 0); + if (IS_ERR(power_desc)) + /* handle error */ -Other GpioIo parameters must be converted first by the driver to be -suitable to the gpiolib before passing them. + /* Now we can use the GPIO descriptors */ -In case of GpioInt resource an additional call to gpio_to_irq() must be -done before calling request_irq(). +There are also devm_* versions of these functions which release the +descriptors once the device is released. diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt b/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1860cb3865c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt @@ -0,0 +1,388 @@ +ACPI Device Tree - Representation of ACPI Namespace + +Copyright (C) 2013, Intel Corporation +Author: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> + + +Abstract: + +The Linux ACPI subsystem converts ACPI namespace objects into a Linux +device tree under the /sys/devices/LNXSYSTEM:00 and updates it upon +receiving ACPI hotplug notification events. For each device object in this +hierarchy there is a corresponding symbolic link in the +/sys/bus/acpi/devices. +This document illustrates the structure of the ACPI device tree. + + +Credit: + +Thanks for the help from Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> and Rafael J. +Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>. + + +1. ACPI Definition Blocks + + The ACPI firmware sets up RSDP (Root System Description Pointer) in the + system memory address space pointing to the XSDT (Extended System + Description Table). The XSDT always points to the FADT (Fixed ACPI + Description Table) using its first entry, the data within the FADT + includes various fixed-length entries that describe fixed ACPI features + of the hardware. The FADT contains a pointer to the DSDT + (Differentiated System Descripition Table). The XSDT also contains + entries pointing to possibly multiple SSDTs (Secondary System + Description Table). + + The DSDT and SSDT data is organized in data structures called definition + blocks that contain definitions of various objects, including ACPI + control methods, encoded in AML (ACPI Machine Language). The data block + of the DSDT along with the contents of SSDTs represents a hierarchical + data structure called the ACPI namespace whose topology reflects the + structure of the underlying hardware platform. + + The relationships between ACPI System Definition Tables described above + are illustrated in the following diagram. + + +---------+ +-------+ +--------+ +------------------------+ + | RSDP | +->| XSDT | +->| FADT | | +-------------------+ | + +---------+ | +-------+ | +--------+ +-|->| DSDT | | + | Pointer | | | Entry |-+ | ...... | | | +-------------------+ | + +---------+ | +-------+ | X_DSDT |--+ | | Definition Blocks | | + | Pointer |-+ | ..... | | ...... | | +-------------------+ | + +---------+ +-------+ +--------+ | +-------------------+ | + | Entry |------------------|->| SSDT | | + +- - - -+ | +-------------------| | + | Entry | - - - - - - - -+ | | Definition Blocks | | + +- - - -+ | | +-------------------+ | + | | +- - - - - - - - - -+ | + +-|->| SSDT | | + | +-------------------+ | + | | Definition Blocks | | + | +- - - - - - - - - -+ | + +------------------------+ + | + OSPM Loading | + \|/ + +----------------+ + | ACPI Namespace | + +----------------+ + + Figure 1. ACPI Definition Blocks + + NOTE: RSDP can also contain a pointer to the RSDT (Root System + Description Table). Platforms provide RSDT to enable + compatibility with ACPI 1.0 operating systems. The OS is expected + to use XSDT, if present. + + +2. Example ACPI Namespace + + All definition blocks are loaded into a single namespace. The namespace + is a hierarchy of objects identified by names and paths. + The following naming conventions apply to object names in the ACPI + namespace: + 1. All names are 32 bits long. + 2. The first byte of a name must be one of 'A' - 'Z', '_'. + 3. Each of the remaining bytes of a name must be one of 'A' - 'Z', '0' + - '9', '_'. + 4. Names starting with '_' are reserved by the ACPI specification. + 5. The '\' symbol represents the root of the namespace (i.e. names + prepended with '\' are relative to the namespace root). + 6. The '^' symbol represents the parent of the current namespace node + (i.e. names prepended with '^' are relative to the parent of the + current namespace node). + + The figure below shows an example ACPI namespace. + + +------+ + | \ | Root + +------+ + | + | +------+ + +-| _PR | Scope(_PR): the processor namespace + | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| CPU0 | Processor(CPU0): the first processor + | +------+ + | + | +------+ + +-| _SB | Scope(_SB): the system bus namespace + | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| LID0 | Device(LID0); the lid device + | | +------+ + | | | + | | | +------+ + | | +-| _HID | Name(_HID, "PNP0C0D"): the hardware ID + | | | +------+ + | | | + | | | +------+ + | | +-| _STA | Method(_STA): the status control method + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| PCI0 | Device(PCI0); the PCI root bridge + | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| _HID | Name(_HID, "PNP0A08"): the hardware ID + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| _CID | Name(_CID, "PNP0A03"): the compatible ID + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| RP03 | Scope(RP03): the PCI0 power scope + | | +------+ + | | | + | | | +------+ + | | +-| PXP3 | PowerResource(PXP3): the PCI0 power resource + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| GFX0 | Device(GFX0): the graphics adapter + | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| _ADR | Name(_ADR, 0x00020000): the PCI bus address + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| DD01 | Device(DD01): the LCD output device + | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| _BCL | Method(_BCL): the backlight control method + | +------+ + | + | +------+ + +-| _TZ | Scope(_TZ): the thermal zone namespace + | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| FN00 | PowerResource(FN00): the FAN0 power resource + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| FAN0 | Device(FAN0): the FAN0 cooling device + | | +------+ + | | | + | | | +------+ + | | +-| _HID | Name(_HID, "PNP0A0B"): the hardware ID + | | +------+ + | | + | | +------+ + | +-| TZ00 | ThermalZone(TZ00); the FAN thermal zone + | +------+ + | + | +------+ + +-| _GPE | Scope(_GPE): the GPE namespace + +------+ + + Figure 2. Example ACPI Namespace + + +3. Linux ACPI Device Objects + + The Linux kernel's core ACPI subsystem creates struct acpi_device + objects for ACPI namespace objects representing devices, power resources + processors, thermal zones. Those objects are exported to user space via + sysfs as directories in the subtree under /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00. The + format of their names is <bus_id:instance>, where 'bus_id' refers to the + ACPI namespace representation of the given object and 'instance' is used + for distinguishing different object of the same 'bus_id' (it is + two-digit decimal representation of an unsigned integer). + + The value of 'bus_id' depends on the type of the object whose name it is + part of as listed in the table below. + + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | | Object/Feature | Table | bus_id | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | N | Root | xSDT | LNXSYSTM | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | N | Device | xSDT | _HID | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | N | Processor | xSDT | LNXCPU | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | N | ThermalZone | xSDT | LNXTHERM | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | N | PowerResource | xSDT | LNXPOWER | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | N | Other Devices | xSDT | device | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | F | PWR_BUTTON | FADT | LNXPWRBN | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | F | SLP_BUTTON | FADT | LNXSLPBN | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | M | Video Extension | xSDT | LNXVIDEO | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | M | ATA Controller | xSDT | LNXIOBAY | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + | M | Docking Station | xSDT | LNXDOCK | + +---+-----------------+-------+----------+ + + Table 1. ACPI Namespace Objects Mapping + + The following rules apply when creating struct acpi_device objects on + the basis of the contents of ACPI System Description Tables (as + indicated by the letter in the first column and the notation in the + second column of the table above): + N: + The object's source is an ACPI namespace node (as indicated by the + named object's type in the second column). In that case the object's + directory in sysfs will contain the 'path' attribute whose value is + the full path to the node from the namespace root. + F: + The struct acpi_device object is created for a fixed hardware + feature (as indicated by the fixed feature flag's name in the second + column), so its sysfs directory will not contain the 'path' + attribute. + M: + The struct acpi_device object is created for an ACPI namespace node + with specific control methods (as indicated by the ACPI defined + device's type in the second column). The 'path' attribute containing + its namespace path will be present in its sysfs directory. For + example, if the _BCL method is present for an ACPI namespace node, a + struct acpi_device object with LNXVIDEO 'bus_id' will be created for + it. + + The third column of the above table indicates which ACPI System + Description Tables contain information used for the creation of the + struct acpi_device objects represented by the given row (xSDT means DSDT + or SSDT). + + The forth column of the above table indicates the 'bus_id' generation + rule of the struct acpi_device object: + _HID: + _HID in the last column of the table means that the object's bus_id + is derived from the _HID/_CID identification objects present under + the corresponding ACPI namespace node. The object's sysfs directory + will then contain the 'hid' and 'modalias' attributes that can be + used to retrieve the _HID and _CIDs of that object. + LNXxxxxx: + The 'modalias' attribute is also present for struct acpi_device + objects having bus_id of the "LNXxxxxx" form (pseudo devices), in + which cases it contains the bus_id string itself. + device: + 'device' in the last column of the table indicates that the object's + bus_id cannot be determined from _HID/_CID of the corresponding + ACPI namespace node, although that object represents a device (for + example, it may be a PCI device with _ADR defined and without _HID + or _CID). In that case the string 'device' will be used as the + object's bus_id. + + +4. Linux ACPI Physical Device Glue + + ACPI device (i.e. struct acpi_device) objects may be linked to other + objects in the Linux' device hierarchy that represent "physical" devices + (for example, devices on the PCI bus). If that happens, it means that + the ACPI device object is a "companion" of a device otherwise + represented in a different way and is used (1) to provide configuration + information on that device which cannot be obtained by other means and + (2) to do specific things to the device with the help of its ACPI + control methods. One ACPI device object may be linked this way to + multiple "physical" devices. + + If an ACPI device object is linked to a "physical" device, its sysfs + directory contains the "physical_node" symbolic link to the sysfs + directory of the target device object. In turn, the target device's + sysfs directory will then contain the "firmware_node" symbolic link to + the sysfs directory of the companion ACPI device object. + The linking mechanism relies on device identification provided by the + ACPI namespace. For example, if there's an ACPI namespace object + representing a PCI device (i.e. a device object under an ACPI namespace + object representing a PCI bridge) whose _ADR returns 0x00020000 and the + bus number of the parent PCI bridge is 0, the sysfs directory + representing the struct acpi_device object created for that ACPI + namespace object will contain the 'physical_node' symbolic link to the + /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02:0/ sysfs directory of the + corresponding PCI device. + + The linking mechanism is generally bus-specific. The core of its + implementation is located in the drivers/acpi/glue.c file, but there are + complementary parts depending on the bus types in question located + elsewhere. For example, the PCI-specific part of it is located in + drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c. + + +5. Example Linux ACPI Device Tree + + The sysfs hierarchy of struct acpi_device objects corresponding to the + example ACPI namespace illustrated in Figure 2 with the addition of + fixed PWR_BUTTON/SLP_BUTTON devices is shown below. + + +--------------+---+-----------------+ + | LNXSYSTEM:00 | \ | acpi:LNXSYSTEM: | + +--------------+---+-----------------+ + | + | +-------------+-----+----------------+ + +-| LNXPWRBN:00 | N/A | acpi:LNXPWRBN: | + | +-------------+-----+----------------+ + | + | +-------------+-----+----------------+ + +-| LNXSLPBN:00 | N/A | acpi:LNXSLPBN: | + | +-------------+-----+----------------+ + | + | +-----------+------------+--------------+ + +-| LNXCPU:00 | \_PR_.CPU0 | acpi:LNXCPU: | + | +-----------+------------+--------------+ + | + | +-------------+-------+----------------+ + +-| LNXSYBUS:00 | \_SB_ | acpi:LNXSYBUS: | + | +-------------+-------+----------------+ + | | + | | +- - - - - - - +- - - - - - +- - - - - - - -+ + | +-| PNP0C0D:00 | \_SB_.LID0 | acpi:PNP0C0D: | + | | +- - - - - - - +- - - - - - +- - - - - - - -+ + | | + | | +------------+------------+-----------------------+ + | +-| PNP0A08:00 | \_SB_.PCI0 | acpi:PNP0A08:PNP0A03: | + | +------------+------------+-----------------------+ + | | + | | +-----------+-----------------+-----+ + | +-| device:00 | \_SB_.PCI0.RP03 | N/A | + | | +-----------+-----------------+-----+ + | | | + | | | +-------------+----------------------+----------------+ + | | +-| LNXPOWER:00 | \_SB_.PCI0.RP03.PXP3 | acpi:LNXPOWER: | + | | +-------------+----------------------+----------------+ + | | + | | +-------------+-----------------+----------------+ + | +-| LNXVIDEO:00 | \_SB_.PCI0.GFX0 | acpi:LNXVIDEO: | + | +-------------+-----------------+----------------+ + | | + | | +-----------+-----------------+-----+ + | +-| device:01 | \_SB_.PCI0.DD01 | N/A | + | +-----------+-----------------+-----+ + | + | +-------------+-------+----------------+ + +-| LNXSYBUS:01 | \_TZ_ | acpi:LNXSYBUS: | + +-------------+-------+----------------+ + | + | +-------------+------------+----------------+ + +-| LNXPOWER:0a | \_TZ_.FN00 | acpi:LNXPOWER: | + | +-------------+------------+----------------+ + | + | +------------+------------+---------------+ + +-| PNP0C0B:00 | \_TZ_.FAN0 | acpi:PNP0C0B: | + | +------------+------------+---------------+ + | + | +-------------+------------+----------------+ + +-| LNXTHERM:00 | \_TZ_.TZ00 | acpi:LNXTHERM: | + +-------------+------------+----------------+ + + Figure 3. Example Linux ACPI Device Tree + + NOTE: Each node is represented as "object/path/modalias", where: + 1. 'object' is the name of the object's directory in sysfs. + 2. 'path' is the ACPI namespace path of the corresponding + ACPI namespace object, as returned by the object's 'path' + sysfs attribute. + 3. 'modalias' is the value of the object's 'modalias' sysfs + attribute (as described earlier in this document). + NOTE: N/A indicates the device object does not have the 'path' or the + 'modalias' attribute. diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/scan_handlers.txt b/Documentation/acpi/scan_handlers.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3246ccf1599 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/acpi/scan_handlers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +ACPI Scan Handlers + +Copyright (C) 2012, Intel Corporation +Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> + +During system initialization and ACPI-based device hot-add, the ACPI namespace +is scanned in search of device objects that generally represent various pieces +of hardware. This causes a struct acpi_device object to be created and +registered with the driver core for every device object in the ACPI namespace +and the hierarchy of those struct acpi_device objects reflects the namespace +layout (i.e. parent device objects in the namespace are represented by parent +struct acpi_device objects and analogously for their children). Those struct +acpi_device objects are referred to as "device nodes" in what follows, but they +should not be confused with struct device_node objects used by the Device Trees +parsing code (although their role is analogous to the role of those objects). + +During ACPI-based device hot-remove device nodes representing pieces of hardware +being removed are unregistered and deleted. + +The core ACPI namespace scanning code in drivers/acpi/scan.c carries out basic +initialization of device nodes, such as retrieving common configuration +information from the device objects represented by them and populating them with +appropriate data, but some of them require additional handling after they have +been registered. For example, if the given device node represents a PCI host +bridge, its registration should cause the PCI bus under that bridge to be +enumerated and PCI devices on that bus to be registered with the driver core. +Similarly, if the device node represents a PCI interrupt link, it is necessary +to configure that link so that the kernel can use it. + +Those additional configuration tasks usually depend on the type of the hardware +component represented by the given device node which can be determined on the +basis of the device node's hardware ID (HID). They are performed by objects +called ACPI scan handlers represented by the following structure: + +struct acpi_scan_handler { + const struct acpi_device_id *ids; + struct list_head list_node; + int (*attach)(struct acpi_device *dev, const struct acpi_device_id *id); + void (*detach)(struct acpi_device *dev); +}; + +where ids is the list of IDs of device nodes the given handler is supposed to +take care of, list_node is the hook to the global list of ACPI scan handlers +maintained by the ACPI core and the .attach() and .detach() callbacks are +executed, respectively, after registration of new device nodes and before +unregistration of device nodes the handler attached to previously. + +The namespace scanning function, acpi_bus_scan(), first registers all of the +device nodes in the given namespace scope with the driver core. Then, it tries +to match a scan handler against each of them using the ids arrays of the +available scan handlers. If a matching scan handler is found, its .attach() +callback is executed for the given device node. If that callback returns 1, +that means that the handler has claimed the device node and is now responsible +for carrying out any additional configuration tasks related to it. It also will +be responsible for preparing the device node for unregistration in that case. +The device node's handler field is then populated with the address of the scan +handler that has claimed it. + +If the .attach() callback returns 0, it means that the device node is not +interesting to the given scan handler and may be matched against the next scan +handler in the list. If it returns a (negative) error code, that means that +the namespace scan should be terminated due to a serious error. The error code +returned should then reflect the type of the error. + +The namespace trimming function, acpi_bus_trim(), first executes .detach() +callbacks from the scan handlers of all device nodes in the given namespace +scope (if they have scan handlers). Next, it unregisters all of the device +nodes in that scope. + +ACPI scan handlers can be added to the list maintained by the ACPI core with the +help of the acpi_scan_add_handler() function taking a pointer to the new scan +handler as an argument. The order in which scan handlers are added to the list +is the order in which they are matched against device nodes during namespace +scans. + +All scan handles must be added to the list before acpi_bus_scan() is run for the +first time and they cannot be removed from it. diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/video_extension.txt b/Documentation/acpi/video_extension.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..78b32ac0246 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/acpi/video_extension.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +ACPI video extensions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This driver implement the ACPI Extensions For Display Adapters for +integrated graphics devices on motherboard, as specified in ACPI 2.0 +Specification, Appendix B, allowing to perform some basic control like +defining the video POST device, retrieving EDID information or to +setup a video output, etc. Note that this is an ref. implementation +only. It may or may not work for your integrated video device. + +The ACPI video driver does 3 things regarding backlight control: + +1 Export a sysfs interface for user space to control backlight level + +If the ACPI table has a video device, and acpi_backlight=vendor kernel +command line is not present, the driver will register a backlight device +and set the required backlight operation structure for it for the sysfs +interface control. For every registered class device, there will be a +directory named acpi_videoX under /sys/class/backlight. + +The backlight sysfs interface has a standard definition here: +Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight. + +And what ACPI video driver does is: +actual_brightness: on read, control method _BQC will be evaluated to +get the brightness level the firmware thinks it is at; +bl_power: not implemented, will set the current brightness instead; +brightness: on write, control method _BCM will run to set the requested +brightness level; +max_brightness: Derived from the _BCL package(see below); +type: firmware + +Note that ACPI video backlight driver will always use index for +brightness, actual_brightness and max_brightness. So if we have +the following _BCL package: + +Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized) +{ + Return (Package (0x0C) + { + 0x64, + 0x32, + 0x0A, + 0x14, + 0x1E, + 0x28, + 0x32, + 0x3C, + 0x46, + 0x50, + 0x5A, + 0x64 + }) +} + +The first two levels are for when laptop are on AC or on battery and are +not used by Linux currently. The remaining 10 levels are supported levels +that we can choose from. The applicable index values are from 0 (that +corresponds to the 0x0A brightness value) to 9 (that corresponds to the +0x64 brightness value) inclusive. Each of those index values is regarded +as a "brightness level" indicator. Thus from the user space perspective +the range of available brightness levels is from 0 to 9 (max_brightness) +inclusive. + +2 Notify user space about hotkey event + +There are generally two cases for hotkey event reporting: +i) For some laptops, when user presses the hotkey, a scancode will be + generated and sent to user space through the input device created by + the keyboard driver as a key type input event, with proper remap, the + following key code will appear to user space: + + EV_KEY, KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP + EV_KEY, KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN + etc. + +For this case, ACPI video driver does not need to do anything(actually, +it doesn't even know this happened). + +ii) For some laptops, the press of the hotkey will not generate the + scancode, instead, firmware will notify the video device ACPI node + about the event. The event value is defined in the ACPI spec. ACPI + video driver will generate an key type input event according to the + notify value it received and send the event to user space through the + input device it created: + + event keycode + 0x86 KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP + 0x87 KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN + etc. + +so this would lead to the same effect as case i) now. + +Once user space tool receives this event, it can modify the backlight +level through the sysfs interface. + +3 Change backlight level in the kernel + +This works for machines covered by case ii) in Section 2. Once the driver +received a notification, it will set the backlight level accordingly. This does +not affect the sending of event to user space, they are always sent to user +space regardless of whether or not the video module controls the backlight level +directly. This behaviour can be controlled through the brightness_switch_enabled +module parameter as documented in kernel-parameters.txt. It is recommended to +disable this behaviour once a GUI environment starts up and wants to have full +control of the backlight level. |