[PATCH v11 0/5] Dell AWCC platform_profile support

Kurt Borja
2024-10-30T00:09:32Z

This patch adds platform_profile support for Dell devices which implement
WMAX thermal interface, that are meant to be controlled by Alienware Command
Center (AWCC). These devices may include newer Alienware M-Series, Alienware
X-Series and Dell's G-Series.

Tested on an Alienware x15 R1.
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v11:
- Minor changes on patch 4/5
v10:
- `thermal` and `gmode` quirks are now manually selected because some
models with the WMAX interface don't have the necessary thermal
methods.
- Added force_platform_profile and force_gmode patch for a better user
experience
v9:
- Minor changes on patch 3/4
v8:
- Aesthetic and readibility fixes on patch 3/4
- Better commit message for patch 3/4
v7:
- Platform profile implementation refactored in order to efficently
autodetect available thermal profiles
- Added GameShiftStatus method to documentation
- Implemented GameShiftStatus switch for devices that support it
v6:
- Removed quirk thermal_ustt.
- Now quirk thermal can take canonical thermal profile _tables_ defined
in enum WMAX_THERMAL_TABLES
- Added autodetect_thermal_profile
- Proper removal of thermal profile
v5:
- Better commit messages
- insize renamed to in_size in alienware_wmax_command() to match other
arguments.
- Kudos in documentation now at the end of the file
v4:
- Fixed indentation on previous code
- Removed unnecessary (acpi_size) and (u32 *) casts
- Return -EIO on ACPI_FAILURE
- Appropiate prefixes given to macros
- 0xFFFFFFFF named WMAX_FAILURE_CODE
- Added support for a new set of thermal codes. Old ones now have USTT
in their names
- A new quirk has been added to differantiate between the two sets.
thermal and thermal_ustt are mutually exclusive
- Added documentation for WMAX interface
v3:
- Removed extra empty line
- 0x0B named WMAX_ARG_GET_CURRENT_PROF
- Removed casts to the same type on functions added in this patch
- Thermal profile to WMAX argument is now an static function and makes
use of in-built kernel macros
- Platform profile is now removed only if it was created first
- create_platform_profile is now create_thermal_profile to avoid
confusion
- profile_get and profile_set functions renamed too to match the above
v2:
- Moved functionality to alienware-wmi driver
- Added thermal and gmode quirks to add support based on dmi match
- Performance profile is now GMODE for devices that support it
- alienware_wmax_command now is insize agnostic to support new thermal
methods

Kurt Borja (5):
alienware-wmi: fixed indentation and clean up
alienware-wmi: alienware_wmax_command() is now input size agnostic
alienware-wmi: added platform profile support
alienware-wmi: added force module parameters
alienware-wmi: WMAX interface documentation

Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst | 388 ++++++++++++++++
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi.c | 477 ++++++++++++++++----
4 files changed, 791 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst

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