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-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt80
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/apei/output_format.txt147
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt314
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt94
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/namespace.txt388
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/scan_handlers.txt77
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/video_extension.txt106
9 files changed, 1207 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
index dfab71848dc..f51861bcb07 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
@@ -45,15 +45,85 @@ 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. For memory error, this is
- physical memory address.
+ 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. For memory error, this is
- physical memory address mask.
+ 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
+ perform some actions to trigger it. Setting "notrigger" to 1 skips the
+ trigger phase, which *may* allow the user to cause the error in some other
+ context by a simple access to the cpu, memory location, or device that is
+ the target of the error injection. Whether this actually works depends
+ on what operations the BIOS actually includes in the trigger phase.
+
+BIOS versions based in the ACPI 4.0 specification have limited options
+to control where the errors are injected. Your BIOS may support an
+extension (enabled with the param_extension=1 module parameter, or
+boot command line einj.param_extension=1). This allows the address
+and mask for memory injections to be specified by the param1 and
+param2 files in apei/einj.
+
+BIOS versions using the ACPI 5.0 specification have more control over
+the target of the injection. For processor related errors (type 0x1,
+0x2 and 0x4) the APICID of the target should be provided using the
+param1 file in apei/einj. For memory errors (type 0x8, 0x10 and 0x20)
+the address is set using param1 with a mask in param2 (0x0 is equivalent
+to all ones). For PCI express errors (type 0x40, 0x80 and 0x100) the
+segment, bus, device and function are specified using param1:
+
+ 31 24 23 16 15 11 10 8 7 0
+ +-------------------------------------------------+
+ | segment | bus | device | function | reserved |
+ +-------------------------------------------------+
+
+An ACPI 5.0 BIOS may also allow vendor specific errors to be injected.
+In this case a file named vendor will contain identifying information
+from the BIOS that hopefully will allow an application wishing to use
+the vendor specific extension to tell that they are running on a BIOS
+that supports it. All vendor extensions have the 0x80000000 bit set in
+error_type. A file vendor_flags controls the interpretation of param1
+and param2 (1 = PROCESSOR, 2 = MEMORY, 4 = PCI). See your BIOS vendor
+documentation for details (and expect changes to this API if vendors
+creativity in using this feature expands beyond our expectations).
+
+Example:
+# cd /sys/kernel/debug/apei/einj
+# cat available_error_type # See which errors can be injected
+0x00000002 Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal
+0x00000008 Memory Correctable
+0x00000010 Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal
+# echo 0x12345000 > param1 # Set memory address for injection
+# echo 0xfffffffffffff000 > param2 # Mask - anywhere in this page
+# echo 0x8 > error_type # Choose correctable memory error
+# echo 1 > error_inject # Inject now
+
For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
-version 4.0, section 17.5.
+version 4.0, section 17.5 and ACPI 5.0, section 18.6.
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/apei/output_format.txt b/Documentation/acpi/apei/output_format.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0c49c197c47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/apei/output_format.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+ APEI output format
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+APEI uses printk as hardware error reporting interface, the output
+format is as follow.
+
+<error record> :=
+APEI generic hardware error status
+severity: <integer>, <severity string>
+section: <integer>, severity: <integer>, <severity string>
+flags: <integer>
+<section flags strings>
+fru_id: <uuid string>
+fru_text: <string>
+section_type: <section type string>
+<section data>
+
+<severity string>* := recoverable | fatal | corrected | info
+
+<section flags strings># :=
+[primary][, containment warning][, reset][, threshold exceeded]\
+[, resource not accessible][, latent error]
+
+<section type string> := generic processor error | memory error | \
+PCIe error | unknown, <uuid string>
+
+<section data> :=
+<generic processor section data> | <memory section data> | \
+<pcie section data> | <null>
+
+<generic processor section data> :=
+[processor_type: <integer>, <proc type string>]
+[processor_isa: <integer>, <proc isa string>]
+[error_type: <integer>
+<proc error type strings>]
+[operation: <integer>, <proc operation string>]
+[flags: <integer>
+<proc flags strings>]
+[level: <integer>]
+[version_info: <integer>]
+[processor_id: <integer>]
+[target_address: <integer>]
+[requestor_id: <integer>]
+[responder_id: <integer>]
+[IP: <integer>]
+
+<proc type string>* := IA32/X64 | IA64
+
+<proc isa string>* := IA32 | IA64 | X64
+
+<processor error type strings># :=
+[cache error][, TLB error][, bus error][, micro-architectural error]
+
+<proc operation string>* := unknown or generic | data read | data write | \
+instruction execution
+
+<proc flags strings># :=
+[restartable][, precise IP][, overflow][, corrected]
+
+<memory section data> :=
+[error_status: <integer>]
+[physical_address: <integer>]
+[physical_address_mask: <integer>]
+[node: <integer>]
+[card: <integer>]
+[module: <integer>]
+[bank: <integer>]
+[device: <integer>]
+[row: <integer>]
+[column: <integer>]
+[bit_position: <integer>]
+[requestor_id: <integer>]
+[responder_id: <integer>]
+[target_id: <integer>]
+[error_type: <integer>, <mem error type string>]
+
+<mem error type string>* :=
+unknown | no error | single-bit ECC | multi-bit ECC | \
+single-symbol chipkill ECC | multi-symbol chipkill ECC | master abort | \
+target abort | parity error | watchdog timeout | invalid address | \
+mirror Broken | memory sparing | scrub corrected error | \
+scrub uncorrected error
+
+<pcie section data> :=
+[port_type: <integer>, <pcie port type string>]
+[version: <integer>.<integer>]
+[command: <integer>, status: <integer>]
+[device_id: <integer>:<integer>:<integer>.<integer>
+slot: <integer>
+secondary_bus: <integer>
+vendor_id: <integer>, device_id: <integer>
+class_code: <integer>]
+[serial number: <integer>, <integer>]
+[bridge: secondary_status: <integer>, control: <integer>]
+[aer_status: <integer>, aer_mask: <integer>
+<aer status string>
+[aer_uncor_severity: <integer>]
+aer_layer=<aer layer string>, aer_agent=<aer agent string>
+aer_tlp_header: <integer> <integer> <integer> <integer>]
+
+<pcie port type string>* := PCIe end point | legacy PCI end point | \
+unknown | unknown | root port | upstream switch port | \
+downstream switch port | PCIe to PCI/PCI-X bridge | \
+PCI/PCI-X to PCIe bridge | root complex integrated endpoint device | \
+root complex event collector
+
+if section severity is fatal or recoverable
+<aer status string># :=
+unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Data Link Protocol | \
+unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | \
+Poisoned TLP | Flow Control Protocol | Completion Timeout | \
+Completer Abort | Unexpected Completion | Receiver Overflow | \
+Malformed TLP | ECRC | Unsupported Request
+else
+<aer status string># :=
+Receiver Error | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | \
+Bad TLP | Bad DLLP | RELAY_NUM Rollover | unknown | unknown | unknown | \
+Replay Timer Timeout | Advisory Non-Fatal
+fi
+
+<aer layer string> :=
+Physical Layer | Data Link Layer | Transaction Layer
+
+<aer agent string> :=
+Receiver ID | Requester ID | Completer ID | Transmitter ID
+
+Where, [] designate corresponding content is optional
+
+All <field string> description with * has the following format:
+
+field: <integer>, <field string>
+
+Where value of <integer> should be the position of "string" in <field
+string> description. Otherwise, <field string> will be "unknown".
+
+All <field strings> description with # has the following format:
+
+field: <integer>
+<field strings>
+
+Where each string in <fields strings> corresponding to one set bit of
+<integer>. The bit position is the position of "string" in <field
+strings> description.
+
+For more detailed explanation of every field, please refer to UEFI
+specification version 2.3 or later, section Appendix N: Common
+Platform Error Record.
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
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e182be5e3c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
+ACPI based device enumeration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ACPI 5 introduced a set of new resources (UartTSerialBus, I2cSerialBus,
+SpiSerialBus, GpioIo and GpioInt) which can be used in enumerating slave
+devices behind serial bus controllers.
+
+In addition we are starting to see peripherals integrated in the
+SoC/Chipset to appear only in ACPI namespace. These are typically devices
+that are accessed through memory-mapped registers.
+
+In order to support this and re-use the existing drivers as much as
+possible we decided to do following:
+
+ o Devices that have no bus connector resource are represented as
+ platform devices.
+
+ o Devices behind real busses where there is a connector resource
+ are represented as struct spi_device or struct i2c_device
+ (standard UARTs are not busses so there is no struct uart_device).
+
+As both ACPI and Device Tree represent a tree of devices (and their
+resources) this implementation follows the Device Tree way as much as
+possible.
+
+The ACPI implementation enumerates devices behind busses (platform, SPI and
+I2C), creates the physical devices and binds them to their ACPI handle in
+the ACPI namespace.
+
+This means that when ACPI_HANDLE(dev) returns non-NULL the device was
+enumerated from ACPI namespace. This handle can be used to extract other
+device-specific configuration. There is an example of this below.
+
+Platform bus support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Since we are using platform devices to represent devices that are not
+connected to any physical bus we only need to implement a platform driver
+for the device and add supported ACPI IDs. If this same IP-block is used on
+some other non-ACPI platform, the driver might work out of the box or needs
+some minor changes.
+
+Adding ACPI support for an existing driver should be pretty
+straightforward. Here is the simplest example:
+
+ #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+ static struct acpi_device_id mydrv_acpi_match[] = {
+ /* ACPI IDs here */
+ { }
+ };
+ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, mydrv_acpi_match);
+ #endif
+
+ static struct platform_driver my_driver = {
+ ...
+ .driver = {
+ .acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(mydrv_acpi_match),
+ },
+ };
+
+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.
+
+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
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Slave devices behind SPI bus have SpiSerialBus resource attached to them.
+This is extracted automatically by the SPI core and the slave devices are
+enumerated once spi_register_master() is called by the bus driver.
+
+Here is what the ACPI namespace for a SPI slave might look like:
+
+ Device (EEP0)
+ {
+ Name (_ADR, 1)
+ Name (_CID, Package() {
+ "ATML0025",
+ "AT25",
+ })
+ ...
+ Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
+ {
+ SPISerialBus(1, PolarityLow, FourWireMode, 8,
+ ControllerInitiated, 1000000, ClockPolarityLow,
+ ClockPhaseFirst, "\\_SB.PCI0.SPI1",)
+ }
+ ...
+
+The SPI device drivers only need to add ACPI IDs in a similar way than with
+the platform device drivers. Below is an example where we add ACPI support
+to at25 SPI eeprom driver (this is meant for the above ACPI snippet):
+
+ #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+ static struct acpi_device_id at25_acpi_match[] = {
+ { "AT25", 0 },
+ { },
+ };
+ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, at25_acpi_match);
+ #endif
+
+ static struct spi_driver at25_driver = {
+ .driver = {
+ ...
+ .acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(at25_acpi_match),
+ },
+ };
+
+Note that this driver actually needs more information like page size of the
+eeprom etc. but at the time writing this there is no standard way of
+passing those. One idea is to return this in _DSM method like:
+
+ Device (EEP0)
+ {
+ ...
+ Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
+ {
+ Store (Package (6)
+ {
+ "byte-len", 1024,
+ "addr-mode", 2,
+ "page-size, 32
+ }, Local0)
+
+ // Check UUIDs etc.
+
+ Return (Local0)
+ }
+
+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 };
+ struct acpi_object_list input;
+ acpi_status status;
+
+ /* Fill in the input buffer */
+
+ status = acpi_evaluate_object(ACPI_HANDLE(&spi->dev), "_DSM",
+ &input, &output);
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
+ /* Handle the error */
+
+ /* Extract the data here */
+
+ kfree(output.pointer);
+
+I2C serial bus support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The slaves behind I2C bus controller only need to add the ACPI IDs like
+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:
+
+ #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+ static struct acpi_device_id mpu3050_acpi_match[] = {
+ { "MPU3050", 0 },
+ { },
+ };
+ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, mpu3050_acpi_match);
+ #endif
+
+ static struct i2c_driver mpu3050_i2c_driver = {
+ .driver = {
+ .name = "mpu3050",
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
+ .pm = &mpu3050_pm,
+ .of_match_table = mpu3050_of_match,
+ .acpi_match_table ACPI_PTR(mpu3050_acpi_match),
+ },
+ .probe = mpu3050_probe,
+ .remove = mpu3050_remove,
+ .id_table = mpu3050_ids,
+ };
+
+GPIO support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ACPI 5 introduced two new resources to describe GPIO connections: GpioIo
+and GpioInt. These resources are used be used to pass GPIO numbers used by
+the device to the driver. For example:
+
+ Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
+ {
+ Name (SBUF, ResourceTemplate()
+ {
+ ...
+ // Used to power on/off the device
+ GpioIo (Exclusive, PullDefault, 0x0000, 0x0000,
+ IoRestrictionOutputOnly, "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0",
+ 0x00, ResourceConsumer,,)
+ {
+ // Pin List
+ 0x0055
+ }
+
+ // Interrupt for the device
+ GpioInt (Edge, ActiveHigh, ExclusiveAndWake, PullNone,
+ 0x0000, "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer,,)
+ {
+ // Pin list
+ 0x0058
+ }
+
+ ...
+
+ }
+
+ 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 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:
+
+ #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 */
+
+ /* Now we can use the GPIO descriptors */
+
+There are also devm_* versions of these functions which release the
+descriptors once the device is released.
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt b/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..35c3f541547
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+Overriding ACPI tables via initrd
+=================================
+
+1) Introduction (What is this about)
+2) What is this for
+3) How does it work
+4) References (Where to retrieve userspace tools)
+
+1) What is this about
+---------------------
+
+If the ACPI_INITRD_TABLE_OVERRIDE compile option is true, it is possible to
+override nearly any ACPI table provided by the BIOS with an instrumented,
+modified one.
+
+For a full list of ACPI tables that can be overridden, take a look at
+the char *table_sigs[MAX_ACPI_SIGNATURE]; definition in drivers/acpi/osl.c
+All ACPI tables iasl (Intel's ACPI compiler and disassembler) knows should
+be overridable, except:
+ - ACPI_SIG_RSDP (has a signature of 6 bytes)
+ - ACPI_SIG_FACS (does not have an ordinary ACPI table header)
+Both could get implemented as well.
+
+
+2) What is this for
+-------------------
+
+Please keep in mind that this is a debug option.
+ACPI tables should not get overridden for productive use.
+If BIOS ACPI tables are overridden the kernel will get tainted with the
+TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE flag.
+Complain to your platform/BIOS vendor if you find a bug which is so sever
+that a workaround is not accepted in the Linux kernel.
+
+Still, it can and should be enabled in any kernel, because:
+ - There is no functional change with not instrumented initrds
+ - It provides a powerful feature to easily debug and test ACPI BIOS table
+ compatibility with the Linux kernel.
+
+
+3) How does it work
+-------------------
+
+# Extract the machine's ACPI tables:
+cd /tmp
+acpidump >acpidump
+acpixtract -a acpidump
+# Disassemble, modify and recompile them:
+iasl -d *.dat
+# For example add this statement into a _PRT (PCI Routing Table) function
+# of the DSDT:
+Store("HELLO WORLD", debug)
+iasl -sa dsdt.dsl
+# Add the raw ACPI tables to an uncompressed cpio archive.
+# They must be put into a /kernel/firmware/acpi directory inside the
+# cpio archive.
+# The uncompressed cpio archive must be the first.
+# Other, typically compressed cpio archives, must be
+# concatenated on top of the uncompressed one.
+mkdir -p kernel/firmware/acpi
+cp dsdt.aml kernel/firmware/acpi
+# A maximum of: #define ACPI_OVERRIDE_TABLES 10
+# tables are currently allowed (see osl.c):
+iasl -sa facp.dsl
+iasl -sa ssdt1.dsl
+cp facp.aml kernel/firmware/acpi
+cp ssdt1.aml kernel/firmware/acpi
+# Create the uncompressed cpio archive and concatenate the original initrd
+# on top:
+find kernel | cpio -H newc --create > /boot/instrumented_initrd
+cat /boot/initrd >>/boot/instrumented_initrd
+# reboot with increased acpi debug level, e.g. boot params:
+acpi.debug_level=0x2 acpi.debug_layer=0xFFFFFFFF
+# and check your syslog:
+[ 1.268089] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
+[ 1.272091] [ACPI Debug] String [0x0B] "HELLO WORLD"
+
+iasl is able to disassemble and recompile quite a lot different,
+also static ACPI tables.
+
+
+4) Where to retrieve userspace tools
+------------------------------------
+
+iasl and acpixtract are part of Intel's ACPICA project:
+http://acpica.org/
+and should be packaged by distributions (for example in the acpica package
+on SUSE).
+
+acpidump can be found in Len Browns pmtools:
+ftp://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools/acpidump
+This tool is also part of the acpica package on SUSE.
+Alternatively, used ACPI tables can be retrieved via sysfs in latest kernels:
+/sys/firmware/acpi/tables
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt b/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
index 3e1d25aee3f..5f55373dd53 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
@@ -66,3 +66,8 @@ Note: We can use a kernel with multiple custom ACPI method running,
But each individual write to debugfs can implement a SINGLE
method override. i.e. if we want to insert/override multiple
ACPI methods, we need to redo step c) ~ g) for multiple times.
+
+Note: Be aware that root can mis-use this driver to modify arbitrary
+ memory and gain additional rights, if root's privileges got
+ restricted (for example if root is not allowed to load additional
+ modules after boot).
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.