From: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
To: "Jan Schär" <jan@jschaer.ch>, "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 7770 AIO
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:04:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0d422ed-5ff2-4523-b145-573146902c9d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260411092606.47925-1-jan@jschaer.ch>
Hi,
On 11-Apr-26 11:26 AM, Jan Schär wrote:
> The Dell OptiPlex 7770 AIO needs the same quirk as the 7760 AIO. The
> backlight can be controlled with the native controller, intel_backlight,
> but not with dell_uart_backlight.
>
> I dumped the DSDT using acpidump, acpixtract and iasl, and confirmed
> that it contains the DELL0501 device. When loading the
> dell_uart_backlight driver with `rmmod dell_uart_backlight`, `modprobe
> dell_uart_backlight dyndbg`, it reports "Firmware version: GL_Re_V18".
>
> Fixes: cd8e468efb4f ("ACPI: video: Add Dell UART backlight controller detection")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jan Schär <jan@jschaer.ch>
Thanks, patch looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com>
Regards,
Hans
> ---
> drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> index 4cf74f173c78..4a2132ae28b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> @@ -878,6 +878,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
> DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "OptiPlex 7760 AIO"),
> },
> },
> + {
> + .callback = video_detect_force_native,
> + /* Dell OptiPlex 7770 AIO */
> + .matches = {
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "OptiPlex 7770 AIO"),
> + },
> + },
>
> /*
> * Models which have nvidia-ec-wmi support, but should not use it.
>
> base-commit: 591cd656a1bf5ea94a222af5ef2ee76df029c1d2
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2026-04-11 9:26 [PATCH] ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 7770 AIO Jan Schär
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