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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display
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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