Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:53:53 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display |
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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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