Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 07:03:23 pm Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 00:35:54 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > Ok. The only other vendors I really have in mind are HP and Fujitsu, > > > since both those vendors use WMI on their laptops, so they would be my > > > most likely candidates to have WMI on an IA64 box (if anyone actually > > > does use WMI on IA64). > > > > How could I tell whether our HP systems use WMI? > > Do you have any PNP0C14 or *pnp0c14 _HID objects defined in the DSDTs for > your > systems? If not, then your systems don't use WMI. I looked at DSDTs for a few HP ia64 systems (rx7620, rx8640, and superdome), and none has a PNP0C14 object. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 00:35:54 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Ok. The only other vendors I really have in mind are HP and Fujitsu, > > since both those vendors use WMI on their laptops, so they would be my > > most likely candidates to have WMI on an IA64 box (if anyone actually > > does use WMI on IA64). > > How could I tell whether our HP systems use WMI? Do you have any PNP0C14 or *pnp0c14 _HID objects defined in the DSDTs for your systems? If not, then your systems don't use WMI. -Carlos -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 02:18:01 pm Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 21:03:30 Len Brown wrote: > > On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > > > 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI > > > will work on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor > > > has or ever will implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it > > > there. > > > > I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it > > emerges. There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion > > IA64 boxes I have access to. > > Ok. The only other vendors I really have in mind are HP and Fujitsu, since > both those vendors use WMI on their laptops, so they would be my most likely > candidates to have WMI on an IA64 box (if anyone actually does use WMI on > IA64). How could I tell whether our HP systems use WMI? Bjorn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 21:03:30 Len Brown wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > > 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI > > will work on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor > > has or ever will implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it > > there. > > I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it > emerges. There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion > IA64 boxes I have access to. Ok. The only other vendors I really have in mind are HP and Fujitsu, since both those vendors use WMI on their laptops, so they would be my most likely candidates to have WMI on an IA64 box (if anyone actually does use WMI on IA64). Len: You can either add a 'depends on X86' to WMI when you apply patch #1 from the second WMI series; or I can send another patch out later on top of this series to do this, once you replace the old patches in acpi-test - whichever is easiest for you) -Carlos -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI will > work > on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor has or ever will > implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it there. I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it emerges. There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion IA64 boxes I have access to. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
Len,
These patches replace the previous five you have in acpi-test - due to the
changes to patch #2 (the sysfs support), and some other problems that turned
up in some extra testing with it, I'd prefer if you replace the original patch
series with this one.
Any further patches can then safely come as incremental ones on top of this
series.
Also, two other things:
1) Would you be able to send me a copy of the DSDT for your Lenovo T61? I'd be
interested to have a look at what Lenovo are doing with WMI.
2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI will work
on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor has or ever will
implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it there.
-Carlos
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Patch #1: (WMI - driver and in kernel interface) - Minor clean up
* Delete 'default m' from Kconfig (as per your changes)
* Minor fix to MAINTAINERS (s/Supported/Maintained/ - oversight on my part)
Patch #2: (acer-wmi) - MAINTAINERS
* Add me to MAINTAINERS
Patch #3: (tc1100-wmi) - MAINTAINERS
* Add me to MAINTAINERS ('Odd Fixes' only, since I don't have the hardware)
RFC only, needs actual testing on the hardware, and probably very broken.
Waiting on Matthew Garrett to get some free time to test this.
I'd ideally like someone to test this on the hardware before I drop the 'RFC' or
am happy with this going upstream.
Patch #4: (WMI sysfs interface) - Various large fixups
* Merged with bus ID length patch (for future bisection purposes)
* Added new Kconfig option and ifdef's to make sysfs support optional (and try
to make it clear that at the moment, it's a development & testing option only)
* Fixed various nasty bugs - crashes, memory leaks, etc (including one that
prevented WMI unloading if sysfs support was enabled)
* Drop the RFC
Patch #5: (WMI documentation) - New
Some simple documentation of the in kernel and sysfs (userspace) WMI interface.
Len:
'data' is a binary file, since WMI provides no information on what is
returned by any given WMI method/ data block, so we don't try and do anything
with it - just return whatever the ACPI buffer contains. You also need to set
'instance' first.
To do anything useful with the sysfs interface, you'll probably need something
that can:
A) Set 'instance'
B) Read 'data' for the given GUID
C) Knows what is being returned
D) Can turn that into something useful to output back
In MS land, (C) is usually provided by a MOF file - since we tend not to have
these available, the only alternative is to look at the DSDT and work out what
size structure you need to hold the returned data.
---
Carlos Corbacho (5):
ACPI: WMI: Add documentation
ACPI: WMI: Add sysfs userspace interface
[RFC] tc1100-wmi: Add driver for HP Compaq TC1100 Tablets
acer-wmi: Add driver for newer Acer laptops
ACPI: WMI: Add ACPI-WMI mapping driver
Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt | 131 +
MAINTAINERS| 19 +
drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 20 +
drivers/acpi/Makefile |1
drivers/acpi/wmi.c | 1253
drivers/misc/Kconfig | 25 +
drivers/misc/Makefile |2
drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c| 1109 +++
drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c | 290 ++
include/linux/acpi.h | 21 +
10 files changed, 2871 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt
create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/wmi.c
create mode 100644 drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c
create mode 100644 drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c
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