Re: [PATCH] Force ELAN06FA touchpad I2C bus freq to 100KHz

Mika Westerberg
2025-01-13T06:48:05Z

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 09:57:10AM -0600, Randolph Ha wrote:
> When a 400KHz freq is used on this model of ELAN touchpad in Linux,
> excessive smoothing (similar to when the touchpad's firmware detects
> a noisy signal) is sometimes applied. As some devices' (e.g, Lenovo
> V15 G4) ACPI tables do not specify a frequency for this device and
> some I2C busses (e.g, Designware I2C) default to a 400KHz freq,
> force the speed to 100KHz as a workaround.

Actually the ACPI tables provide the speed:

I2cSerialBusV2 (0x002C, ControllerInitiated, 0x00061A80,
AddressingMode7Bit, "\\_SB.PC00.I2C1",
0x00, ResourceConsumer, _Y53, Exclusive,
)

It's that 0x00061A80 == 400kHz. Linux uses that and I would expect Windows
to do the same.

However, since the behavior is different between the OSses we are missing
something in Linux side. And because we cannot figure out what that is the
current workaround is to quirk the speed down to 100kHz which seems to cure
the problem.

> This problem may be related to the default HCNT/LCNT values given by
> some busses' drivers, because they are also not specified in the
> aforementioned devices' ACPI tables, and because the device works at
> what appears to be a 400KHz frequency in Windows without issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randolph Ha <rha051117@gmail.com>

This is fine by me if we cannot figure out a better way but please correct
the commit message and the comment below to match the fact that the speed
is specified and that we don't know the root cause.

Once done, freel free to add my,

Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>

> ---
> drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c
> index 14ae0cfc325e..6f1c2377db0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c
> @@ -355,6 +355,24 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id i2c_acpi_force_400khz_device_ids[] = {
> {}
> };
>
> +static const struct acpi_device_id i2c_acpi_force_100khz_device_ids[] = {
> + /*
> + * When a 400KHz freq is used on this model of ELAN touchpad in Linux,
> + * excessive smoothing (similar to when the touchpad's firmware detects
> + * a noisy signal) is sometimes applied. As some devices' (e.g, Lenovo
> + * V15 G4) ACPI tables do not specify a frequency for this device and
> + * some I2C busses (e.g, Designware I2C) default to a 400KHz freq,
> + * force the speed to 100KHz as a workaround.
> + *
> + * This problem may be related to the default HCNT/LCNT values given by
> + * some busses' drivers, because they are also not specified in the
> + * aforementioned devices' ACPI tables, and because the device works at
> + * what appears to be a 400KHz frequency in Windows without issues.
> + */
> + { "ELAN06FA", 0 },
> + {}
> +};
> +
> static acpi_status i2c_acpi_lookup_speed(acpi_handle handle, u32 level,
> void *data, void **return_value)
> {
> @@ -373,6 +391,9 @@ static acpi_status i2c_acpi_lookup_speed(acpi_handle handle, u32 level,
> if (acpi_match_device_ids(adev, i2c_acpi_force_400khz_device_ids) == 0)
> lookup->force_speed = I2C_MAX_FAST_MODE_FREQ;
>
> + if (acpi_match_device_ids(adev, i2c_acpi_force_100khz_device_ids) == 0)
> + lookup->force_speed = I2C_MAX_STANDARD_MODE_FREQ;
> +
> return AE_OK;
> }
>
> --
> 2.47.1