From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles@Schwieters.org Subject: Re: experimental patch for toshiba_acpi Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:37:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090225152409.GA4015@srcf.ucam.org> <1235578705.4770.57.camel@penguin.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> <20090225165152.GA5981@srcf.ucam.org> <1235657022.3802.86.camel@hughsie-work.lan> <1235663518.4770.197.camel@penguin.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> <1235753349.5444.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090228151933.GC17541@khazad-dum.debian.net> Return-path: Received: from elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.65]:38330 "EHLO elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761605AbZCNAjx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:39:53 -0400 In-reply-to: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Richard Hughes , Jonathan Buzzard , John Belmonte , Matthew Garrett , Charles@schwieters.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Len Brown 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ iD8DBQFJuvxlPK2zrJwS/lYRAtEGAJsEMSCMZvVe6FiFUF7QW2Zc2Y3I1ACfV3c0 bjBVX77ycCHz0qC6SF4wwhU= =cx50 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----