From 0e501834f8c2ba7de2a56e332d346dcf4ac0b593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 04:25:53 +0000 Subject: thinkpad-acpi: rework brightness support Refactor and redesign the brightness control backend... In order to fix bugzilla #11750... Add a new brightness control mode: support direct NVRAM checkpointing of the backlight level (i.e. store directly to NVRAM without the need for UCMS calls), and use that together with the EC-based control. Disallow UCMS+EC, thus avoiding races with the SMM firmware. Switch the models that define HBRV (EC Brightness Value) in the DSDT to the new mode. These are: T40-T43, R50-R52, R50e, R51e, X31-X41. Change the default for all other IBM ThinkPads to UCMS-only. The Lenovo models already default to UCMS-only. Reported-by: Alexey Fisher Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index 25ed43d0a21..3d7650768bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -1157,10 +1157,15 @@ display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging from 0 to 15. There are two interfaces to the firmware for direct brightness control, -EC and CMOS. To select which one should be used, use the +EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects EC mode, -brightness_mode=2 selects CMOS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects both EC -and CMOS. The driver tries to auto-detect which interface to use. +brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC +mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered +across shutdown/reboot). + +The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of +defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please +report this as a bug, so that we can fix it. When display backlight brightness controls are available through the standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct @@ -1498,6 +1503,7 @@ to enable more than one output class, just add their values. (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...) 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys 0x0010 Fan control + 0x0020 Backlight brightness There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems. -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258