Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] Untested proposal patch: Store video capabilities of BIOS globally at ACPI parse time and export it.

2007-10-17 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:45 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Store video capabilities of BIOS globally at ACPI parse time and export it. > > This is for vendor specific vs video driver so that they can distinguish who > should take care of video/brightness control. > The bits are chosen in a way t

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] Untested proposal patch: Store video capabilities of BIOS globally at ACPI parse time and export it.

2007-10-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:45:53PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > + if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(handle, "_BCM", &h_dummy1)) && > + ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(handle, "_BCL", &h_dummy2)) && > + ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(handle, "_BQC", &h_dummy3))) > + acp

[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] Untested proposal patch: Store video capabilities of BIOS globally at ACPI parse time and export it.

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Renninger
Store video capabilities of BIOS globally at ACPI parse time and export it. This is for vendor specific vs video driver so that they can distinguish who should take care of video/brightness control. The bits are chosen in a way that video can handle the ability gracefully if all the checked functi