Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:49 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: >> Hi Matthew, >> >> This seems to be in good shape. Do you have anything to add? >> If not, can you pick this patch up through platform-drivers-x86? > > I'm a bit reluctant. Do we h

Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:49 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > This seems to be in good shape. Do you have anything to add? > If not, can you pick this patch up through platform-drivers-x86? I'm a bit reluctant. Do we have any evidence that this is the way OS X behaves? What's the a

Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

Hi Matthew, This seems to be in good shape. Do you have anything to add? If not, can you pick this patch up through platform-drivers-x86? Thanks Patrik On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: > This driver takes control over the LP8550 backlight driver chip found > in the mid 2

Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

Hi, On 04/29/2014 04:21 PM, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: > This driver takes control over the LP8550 backlight driver chip found > in the mid 2013 and newer MacBook Air (6,1 and 6,2). The i915 GPU driver > cannot properly restore the backlight after resume, but with this driver > we can hijack the LP85

[PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

This driver takes control over the LP8550 backlight driver chip found in the mid 2013 and newer MacBook Air (6,1 and 6,2). The i915 GPU driver cannot properly restore the backlight after resume, but with this driver we can hijack the LP8550 and get fully functional backlight support. v2: - Dropped