From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mattia Dongili Subject: Re: sony-laptop on VAIO TT help request Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:55:09 +0900 Message-ID: <20110630135507.GA24186@kamineko.org> References: <4E0C4AE2.2050706@fnarfbargle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E0C4AE2.2050706@fnarfbargle.com> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Campbell Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86 List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 06:07:30PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote: > G'day all, > > I have a sony Vaio TT notebook. It works reasonably well with the > sony-laptop kernel module excepting the following items > > - No control over the optical drive power state > - No control over the "battery care" function in the embedded controller > - No control over the "quick charge" function > > All three of these functions are sub-functions of the SNY6001 method > call, just the same as the rfkill functions. > > I've reverse engineered all three of them with the assistance of > some damaged windows drivers and software. I'd like to add these > functions into the sony-laptop module, but I've absolutely no idea > where to start. there are patches already floating around, you can take a look here http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/patches/ the code is making its way into the kernel. ciao -- mattia :wq!