On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, at 15:19, Russell King wrote: > From: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> > > This driver implements support for the SMC (System Management > Controller) in Apple Macs. In contrast to the existing applesmc driver, > it uses pluggable backends that allow it to support different SMC > implementations, and uses the MFD subsystem to expose the core SMC > functionality so that specific features (gpio, hwmon, battery, etc.) can > be implemented by separate drivers in their respective downstream > subsystems. > > The initial RTKit backend adds support for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 et > al). We hope a backend for T2 Macs will be written in the future > (since those are not supported by applesmc), and eventually an x86 > backend would allow us to fully deprecate applesmc in favor of this > driver. > > Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sven Peter <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
