Re: experimental patch for toshiba_acpi

[Charles@Schwieters.org]

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Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:

> However, I'm not excited about extending toshiba_acpi to
> include /dev/toshiba SMM interface that is already
> provided by the toshiba driver.
> 
> I'd rather see the 'toshiba' driver (perhaps renamed to be toshiba_smm)
> extended so that it is the only driver to provide this interface.
> 

no objection here. I'd just like to have a working solution.

> BTW. I notice that both toshiba_acpi and toshiba ship in Fedora
> and can load on my satellite pro.  However, fedora doesn't ship
> toshset -- is toshiba and /dev/toshiba useful without it?

toshiba_acpi does provide support for a few of the bios settings through
entries in /proc/acpi/toshiba.

> 
> Are new machines still using this interface, or it is going away over 
> time?
> 

It seems that most laptops in the Tecra and Portege lines have this
interface. Many (most?) of the recent Satellites have a Phoenix
Bios which do not support this interface. Most recently, it seems that
some toshiba machines have Insyde BIOS.

Charles
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