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* [RFC PATCH 0/3] platform/x86: Add support for Uniwill laptop features
@ 2025-06-15 17:59 Armin Wolf
  2025-06-15 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] platform/x86: Add Uniwill WMI driver Armin Wolf
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 40+ messages in thread
From: Armin Wolf @ 2025-06-15 17:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ilpo.jarvinen, hdegoede, chumuzero, corbet, cs, wse, ggo
  Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel, platform-driver-x86

This patch series adds support for the various features found on
laptops manufactured by Uniwill. Those features are:

 - battery charge limiting
 - RGB lightbar control
 - hwmon support
 - improved hotkey support
 - keyboard-related settings

This patch series is based on the following out-of-tree drivers:

 - https://github.com/pobrn/qc71_laptop
 - https://github.com/tuxedocomputers/tuxedo-drivers

Additionally the OEM software of the Intel Nuc x15 was
reverse-engineered to have a better understanding about the underlying
hardware interface.

The first patch introduces the uniwill-wmi driver used for handling
WMI events on Uniwill devices. Due to a grave design error inside the
underlying WMI firmware interface (the WMI GUID was copied from the
Windows driver samples and is thus not unique) the driver cannot be
autoloaded. Instead drivers using this module will load it as an
module dependency.

The second patch introduces the uniwill-laptop driver that does the
majority of the work. This driver talks to the embedded controller
yet another WMI interface to control the various features. Sadly this
WMI firmware interfaces suffers from the exact same issue (the WMI
GUID is not unique) and thus a DMI whitelist has to be used for
loading the driver.

The last patch finally adds some documentation for configuring and
using both drivers.

Special thanks go to:

 - github user cyear for bring up this topic on the lm-sensors issue
   tracker and being the tester for various prototype versions
 - github user dumingqiao for testing the battery, lightbar and
   keyboard-related features
 - Tuxedo computers for giving advice on how to design the userspace
   interface

I send this series as an RFC to gather feedback and to request any
involved developers if they want to have their Co-developed-by tags
on the final patch series.

Armin Wolf (3):
  platform/x86: Add Uniwill WMI driver
  platform/x86: Add Uniwill laptop driver
  Documentation: laptops: Add documentation for uniwill laptops

 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uniwill-laptop   |   53 +
 Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst   |    1 +
 .../admin-guide/laptops/uniwill-laptop.rst    |   68 +
 Documentation/wmi/devices/uniwill-laptop.rst  |  109 ++
 Documentation/wmi/devices/uniwill-wmi.rst     |   52 +
 MAINTAINERS                                   |   17 +
 drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                  |    2 +
 drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                 |    3 +
 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/Kconfig          |   49 +
 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/Makefile         |    8 +
 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-laptop.c | 1477 +++++++++++++++++
 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-wmi.c    |  178 ++
 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-wmi.h    |  122 ++
 13 files changed, 2139 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uniwill-laptop
 create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/uniwill-laptop.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/wmi/devices/uniwill-laptop.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/wmi/devices/uniwill-wmi.rst
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-laptop.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-wmi.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-wmi.h

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2.39.5


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2025-06-15 17:59 [RFC PATCH 0/3] platform/x86: Add support for Uniwill laptop features Armin Wolf
2025-06-15 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] platform/x86: Add Uniwill WMI driver Armin Wolf
2025-06-15 18:46   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-15 19:05   ` ALOK TIWARI
2025-06-17 20:58     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-15 20:32   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-16  9:21   ` Hans de Goede
2025-06-17 21:10     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-18  7:23       ` Hans de Goede
2025-06-16 11:14   ` Werner Sembach
2025-06-15 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: Add Uniwill laptop driver Armin Wolf
2025-06-15 19:00   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-17 21:40     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-15 20:39   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-16  8:10   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2025-06-17 21:47     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-16 12:32   ` Werner Sembach
2025-06-17 21:50     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-18 11:15       ` Werner Sembach
2025-06-22 18:58         ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-16 12:46   ` Werner Sembach
2025-06-17 21:52     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-19  9:47       ` Lee Jones
2025-06-19 12:30         ` Hans de Goede
2025-06-19 15:17           ` Lee Jones
2025-06-19 20:03             ` Hans de Goede
2025-06-22 19:19               ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-22 21:37   ` Pőcze Barnabás
2025-06-22 22:36     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-25 15:59       ` Pőcze Barnabás
2025-06-27 23:09         ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-30 12:32           ` Werner Sembach
2025-06-30 12:40             ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-30 12:55               ` Werner Sembach
2025-06-30 13:21                 ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-15 17:59 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] Documentation: laptops: Add documentation for uniwill laptops Armin Wolf
2025-06-18  6:23   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-18 20:06     ` Armin Wolf
2025-06-16 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] platform/x86: Add support for Uniwill laptop features Werner Sembach
2025-06-17 22:02   ` Armin Wolf

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