On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Manoj wrote:
> I am trying to enable the LED mute button on T420, I found that
Manoj, please hunt down threads about LED support on the archives of this
ML and of the linux-thinkpad ML.
New thinkpads offer some other options such as different dimness levels on
some LEDs. It is likely that the newer T4xx/5xx follow these "expanded"
calls in the DSDT.
Support for them was never completed.
> TPACPI_Q_LNV('8', '3', 0xXXXX), /* T420 */
Those quirks are only to select which leds are present or not. You might
need a secondary quirk table if you actually want to tweak anything (and, of
course, you'll have to add the relevant code).
> Method (LED, 2, NotSerialized)
> {
> Or (Arg0, Arg1, Local0)
> If (\H8DR)
> {
> Store (Local0, HLCL)
> }
> Else
> {
> \WBEC (0x0C, Local0)
> }
> }
>
> but not sure how to form the __quirk value from that.
You don't. What that tells me is that it takes two parameters, which are
OR'd together (sw compatibility, so the mapping of the bits might be close
to the original IBM ones for the T4x/X4x series), and stores them directly
to HLCL. H is for H8 (EC). LCL is led control (low?). WBEC is a
compatibility layer from hell, and it is best left alone (runs on some
ancient OS that has ACPI without EmbeddedController region support) and
should do the same as the store to HLCL, but using the SMBIOS instead.
You will need to reverse engineer this one, and map it completely. Also
check other DSDT activity on HLCL, HLCH (if available), etc.
It may well be that Lenovo simplified the EC LED control interface, or
overrode it in weird ways, and you'd need a table-based lookup to map
userspace API behaviour to led behaviour. The IBM EC was *much* simpler to
deal with... at least on the old ECs, all LEDS were created equal :-)
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