From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: Add driver for Apple gmux device
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:53:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120229175327.GA20565@ubuntu-macmini> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6sAcubJvc6LaVRxt+XzBz0jKpxSAPLdOvXkQz=NkXG5vQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:46:39AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Seth Forshee
> <seth.forshee@canonical.com> wrote:
> > Apple laptops with hybrid graphics have a device named gmux that
> > controls the muxing of the LVDS panel between the GPUs as well as screen
> > brightness. This driver adds support for the gmux device. Only backlight
> > control is supported initially.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
>
> Works for me.
>
> Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>
> Now I just need to figure out how to get the desktop backlight widget
> to use gmux_backlight instead of acpi_video0...
The easy way is to pass acpi_backlight=vendor to the kernel, then you
won't have acpi_vidoe0.
Seth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 20:34 [PATCH] platform/x86: Add driver for Apple gmux device Seth Forshee
2012-02-22 14:37 ` [PATCH v2] " Seth Forshee
2012-02-29 17:46 ` Grant Likely
2012-02-29 17:53 ` Seth Forshee [this message]
2012-02-29 18:43 ` Grant Likely
2012-02-29 19:50 ` Seth Forshee
2012-02-29 21:23 ` Grant Likely
2012-02-29 22:08 ` Seth Forshee
2012-02-29 22:32 ` Grant Likely
2012-02-29 22:56 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-01 9:19 ` Corentin Chary
2012-03-01 14:53 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-01 15:15 ` Corentin Chary
2012-03-05 22:06 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-05 22:10 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-05 22:37 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-06 12:52 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-12 14:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-12 14:57 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-12 15:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-12 15:18 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-12 15:22 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-12 15:40 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-15 15:47 ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-15 16:09 ` Matthew Garrett
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