I have released version 0.16-20070916 of thinkpad-acpi through the sourceforge.net release system. Patches are available for 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117042&package_id=230205 git users can get it directly from tags in: git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git This release comes with the NVRAM polling work, finally! It needs some heavy testing if it is to have *any* remote chance of making it to 2.6.24. Otherwise, I will schedule it for 2.6.25. It is a major pity that, for unknown reasons, upstream did not send the merge request for any ACPI work yet, as there are some very important patches for thinkpad-acpi that are needed on 2.6.23-rc. Thus, I have added a 2.6.23 branch as well (I usually do this only after a kernel is released). NVRAM hotkey polling just works (err... it is supposed to, anyway). Load the driver, and when it decides some polling is needed, it activates a kernel thread to do so. It is fully configurable (you can activate it just for testing some of the keys, for example, or deactivate it for keys you don't care about). The documentation has more details. Autodetection requires non-buggy firmware that doesn't report crap in the ACPI DSDT tables (HKEY.MHKA method). The default polling frequency is 4Hz. If that is too low, please report back. Users of the T4x series, X31, X4x and R52 (maybe R51 as well) do not need NVRAM polling, if they are using an up-to-date BIOS. I won't guarantee anything for the *60 and *61 series, please report back if any of them start reporting more keys when you force NVRAM polling as described below: To use NVRAM polling for every key that is available from NVRAM, do this: echo 0x00fb8000 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_source_mask Remember that keys which are mapped to KEY_RESERVED will not generate events over input devices, and that the volume, thinklight and brightness keys are set to KEY_RESERVED by default on most machines. So you need to either remap them, or check for events through the ACPI subsystem (using acpi_listen, for example). HAL and distributions are *NOT* to mess with hotkey_source_mask. If we need any model quirks there, tell me and I will add them in-driver. Local admins are free to do whatever they want, of course. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
