Re: RFI: Tablet mode support on HP Pro x360 435 G9 w/ AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

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Hi Hans,

I am forwarding this question to the BIOS team to identify which ACPI
device is the right device to get the SW_TABLET_MODE events.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 6:31 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Carsten,
>
> On 2/13/23 11:43, Carsten Hatger wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'd like to have tablet mode support on my system, probably by means
> > an linux input device such as implemented in the intel platform
> > specific driver drivers/platform/x86/intel/vbtn.c [0]
> >
> > In the end I hope GNOME eventually to rotate the systems display and
> > to show some virtual keyboard (upon users request), cf. for [3]
> >
> > It appears there has already been a patch proposed  by the chromium
> > team to support device PNP0C60 [1] but not merged to [5].
> >
> > Since the system of interest is a HP Probook, there is already a
> > driver providing virtual buttons,namely hp-wmi [6]. However, the
> > driver loads probes and loads successfully but doesn't provide any
> > additional functionality plus some non critical errors on incorrect
> > ACPI method calls.
> >
> > I've noticed AMD has started to provide platform specific driver(s)
> > such as pmf [2]. To my knowledge there is no support for CEZANNE/green
> > sardine based systems (yet).
> >
> > What would be recommended practice and subsystem/folder to provide
> > such capability by means of a (platform specific) driver? At least the
> > CID PNP0C60 seems to be held by Microsoft [4] and thus be common to
> > both amd and intel platforms [4]. However, HID INT33D6 is held by
> > Intel and HID AMDI0081 by AMD. Yet I'm not quite sure if
> > iio-sensor-proxy [7] needs to be involved, too.
>
> The first thing to do here is to figure out which (ACPI) device
> is the right device to get the SW_TABLET_MODE events from on this
> device.
>
> Maybe Jorge (added to the Cc) can help with this ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
>
>
> > [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/platform/x86/intel/vbtn.c?h=v6.2-rc8
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472628817-3145-1-git-send-email-wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf?h=v6.2-rc8
> > [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1760
> > [4] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/gpiobtn/button-implementation
> > [5] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/acpi/button.c?h=v6.2-rc8
> > [6] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c?h=v6.2-rc8
> > [7] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/
> >
>



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