From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, akpm@osdl.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:53:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060220165353.GD19156@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35C9A9D68AB3FA4AB63692802656D9EC927875@ausx3mps303.aus.amer.dell.com>
Hi!
> Matthew has shown up on the libsmbios-devel mailing list. I sent
> all the
> info needed to do a test of Dell LCD brightness control. The main thing
> left
> would be to make one utility out of the current separate, unsupported,
> test
> utils.
>
> As for fixing i8k, I don't have the slightest clue where to
> begin. You
> either have to split initialization with userspace to parse and send in
> the
> correct io/magic ports to do SMI, or you have to put Dell-specific SMI
> token
> parsing in the kernel.
What is wrong with Dell-specific SMI parsing in kernel? Is it _that_
much code?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-20 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 16:45 [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-20 16:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-02-23 5:17 ` Michael E Brown
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2006-02-07 17:23 Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-07 16:34 Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-07 17:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-12 17:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-07 3:43 Michael E Brown
2006-02-07 4:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:15 [PATCH] Make DMI code store chassis type Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:18 ` [PATCH] Add HP laptop backlight brightness display Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:19 ` [PATCH] Add Dell " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 0:37 ` [PATCH] [RESEND] " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 3:37 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-07 12:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 13:06 ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-07 13:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 13:37 ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-07 13:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 14:54 ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-08 9:06 ` Pavel Machek
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