RE: ACPI home page updates

2007-11-07 Thread Yu, Ling L
Len, Update is done. Please check again. Thanks -Ling -Original Message- From: Brown, Len Sent: 2007年11月6日 2:43 To: Yu, Ling L Cc: 'linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org' Subject: RE: ACPI home page updates also, (sorry, I didn't finish editing previous message before sending)

Re: [PATCH v5] ACPI: WMI: Add WMI-ACPI mapper driver

2007-11-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 04:54:22 Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:17:39AM +, Carlos Corbacho wrote: Handle a MOF[1] - the WMI mapper just exports methods, data and events to userspace. MOF handling is down to userspace. How does userspace obtain the MOF from the

[PATCH] Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region (update)

2007-11-07 Thread Jean Delvare
From: Thomas Renninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region. Drivers can additionally check against possible ACPI interference by also invoking this shortly before they call request_region. If -EBUSY is returned, the driver must not load. Use acpi_enforce_resources=strict/lax/no

[Patch_4/4] [ACPI]:Add MSR support for T-States

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Add MSR support for T-States From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add throttling control via MSR when T-states uses the FixHW Control/ Status registers. Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/processor.c

[PATCH_1/4] [ACPI]:Add the _TPC throttling limit for TSS

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI :Add the _TPC throttling limit for TSS From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] When T-state limit change notification is received, OSPM should evaluate the _TPC object and change the current T-State according to the new limit. Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] acpi: remove nested ifdef CONFIG_ACPI

2007-11-07 Thread Andreas Herrmann
In include/linux/acpi.h we have following ifdefs: #ifndef _LINUX_ACPI_H #define _LINUX_ACPI_H #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI=== #ifndef _LINUX #define _LINUX #endif #include linux/list.h #include linux/mod_devicetable.h #include acpi/acpi.h #include acpi/acpi_bus.h #include

Re: [PATCH v5] ACPI: WMI: Add WMI-ACPI mapper driver

2007-11-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:51:00AM +, Carlos Corbacho wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 04:54:22 Matthew Garrett wrote: 1) A method in the WMI-ACPI implementation - _some_ (very few) implementations have a method in WMI-ACPI that will return a binary MOF (since the MS spec suggests

[PATCH] ACPI: Export acpi_check_resource_conflict() (update)

2007-11-07 Thread Jean Delvare
Export acpi_check_resource_conflict(), sometimes drivers already have a struct resource at hand so no need to use the wrappers to build a new one. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This is an update of a patch I sent previously, so that it applies fine on top of the linux/acpi.h

*New* HP dv6000 series backlight driver.

2007-11-07 Thread Ângelo Miguel Arrifano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, With help of acer_ec.pl I could find HP dv6535ep brightness register. I made a driver for controlling the screen brightness using the backlight backend. It's my very first kernel driver. I hope the code is not too ugly : \ Hoping some

[Patch_3/4][ACPI]:Throttling control uses T-states returned by _TSS when _TSS exists

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Throttling control uses T-states returned by _TSS when _TSS exists From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] If _TSS exists, throttling control will use the T-states returned by _TSS. Otherwise the calculated T-states from FADT.duty_width are used. When TSS is used , the access width

[PATCH_2/4] [ACPI]: Modify the ACPI I/O Access width

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Modify the ACPI I/O Access width From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the argument width is not the multiple of eight, the acpi I/O access will fail. Modify the acpi I/O access width to the multiple of eight. Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Li

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] PNP: request ioport and iomem resources used by active devices

2007-11-07 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:22:48 am Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: -001f : dma1-- built-in resource includes 2 controllers -000f : 00:02 -- PNP reports only one DMA controller [...] 0060-006f :

[PATCH] ACPI: Cleanup linux/acpi.h

2007-11-07 Thread Jean Delvare
Two cleanups to linux/acpi.h: * Stop defining acpi_mp_config, it isn't used anywhere. * Discard nested #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI, they are useless and error-prone. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Len, Andrew, this cleanup should go before the patches sent by Thomas Renninger. I'll

[PATCH] ACPI: Export acpi_check_resource_conflict() (update #2)

2007-11-07 Thread Jean Delvare
Export acpi_check_resource_conflict(), sometimes drivers already have a struct resource at hand so no need to use the wrappers to build a new one. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resending, I had forgotten to quilt refresh. Sorry for the noise. A missing include was causing

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9320] New: PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:35:00 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320 Summary: PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object Product: ACPI Version: 2.5

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9320] New: PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object

2007-11-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:07:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Seems to be another post-2.6.23 regression. Is it an acpi thing or an ata thing, of just something which the new acpi+ata stuff exposed?? I suspect that this is just because acpi is enabled by default on ata now. Is it actually

ACPI: Always return valid 'status' from acpi_battery_get_property()

2007-11-07 Thread Roland Dreier
If a battery is at a critical charge level and not being charged or discharged, then the ACPI _BST method will return a state of 4, and the current acpi_battery_get_property() code will not set any property value for POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_STATUS. This will cause an oops in

[PATCH] [ACPI ]: Init PDC before getting throttling info

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Init PDC before getting throttling info From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] The throttling info should be obtained after PDC is initialized. Otherwise the cpus maybe use the different PTC control/status register when the system supports the TSS throttling via ACPI MSR. One uses

[Patch_4/4] [ACPI]:Add MSR support for T-States

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Add MSR support for T-States From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add throttling control via MSR when T-states uses the FixHW Control/ Status registers. Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/processor.c

Errormessage from kernel 2.6.22-14-generic

2007-11-07 Thread Holger Klene
Hello! After the update to kernel 2.6.22-14-generic I got this note in /var/log/messages Nov 7 18:17:11 samson kernel: [ 15.576751] ACPI: Please test with acpi_osi=!Linux Nov 7 18:17:11 samson kernel: [ 15.576752] Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org That is why I eMail

[PATCH_2/4] [ACPI]: Modify the ACPI I/O Access width

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Modify the ACPI I/O Access width From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the argument width is not the multiple of eight, the acpi I/O access will fail. Modify the acpi I/O access width to the multiple of eight. Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Li

[Patch_3/4][ACPI]:Throttling control uses T-states returned by _TSS when _TSS exists

2007-11-07 Thread Zhao Yakui
Subject: ACPI : Throttling control uses T-states returned by _TSS when _TSS exists From : Zhao Yakui [EMAIL PROTECTED] If _TSS exists, throttling control will use the T-states returned by _TSS. Otherwise the calculated T-states from FADT.duty_width are used. When TSS is used , the access width