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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, akpm@osdl.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:53:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060220165353.GD19156@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35C9A9D68AB3FA4AB63692802656D9EC927875@ausx3mps303.aus.amer.dell.com>

Hi!

> 	Matthew has shown up on the libsmbios-devel mailing list. I sent
> all the
> info needed to do a test of Dell LCD brightness control. The main thing
> left
> would be to make one utility out of the current separate, unsupported,
> test 
> utils. 
> 
> 	As for fixing i8k, I don't have the slightest clue where to
> begin. You 
> either have to split initialization with userspace to parse and send in
> the 
> correct io/magic ports to do SMI, or you have to put Dell-specific SMI
> token 
> parsing in the kernel.

What is wrong with Dell-specific SMI parsing in kernel? Is it _that_
much code?

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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20 16:45 [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-20 16:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-02-23  5:17   ` Michael E Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-07 17:23 Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-07 16:34 Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-07 17:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-12 17:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-07  3:43 Michael E Brown
2006-02-07  4:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:15 [PATCH] Make DMI code store chassis type Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:18 ` [PATCH] Add HP laptop backlight brightness display Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:19   ` [PATCH] Add Dell " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07  0:37     ` [PATCH] [RESEND] " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07  3:37       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-07 12:32         ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 13:06           ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-07 13:23             ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 13:37               ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-07 13:55                 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 14:54                   ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-08  9:06                   ` Pavel Machek

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