-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However, I'm not excited about extending toshiba_acpi to > include /dev/toshiba SMM interface that is already > provided by the toshiba driver. > > I'd rather see the 'toshiba' driver (perhaps renamed to be toshiba_smm) > extended so that it is the only driver to provide this interface. > no objection here. I'd just like to have a working solution. > BTW. I notice that both toshiba_acpi and toshiba ship in Fedora > and can load on my satellite pro. However, fedora doesn't ship > toshset -- is toshiba and /dev/toshiba useful without it? toshiba_acpi does provide support for a few of the bios settings through entries in /proc/acpi/toshiba. > > Are new machines still using this interface, or it is going away over > time? > It seems that most laptops in the Tecra and Portege lines have this interface. Many (most?) of the recent Satellites have a Phoenix Bios which do not support this interface. Most recently, it seems that some toshiba machines have Insyde BIOS. Charles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFJuvxlPK2zrJwS/lYRAtEGAJsEMSCMZvVe6FiFUF7QW2Zc2Y3I1ACfV3c0 bjBVX77ycCHz0qC6SF4wwhU= =cx50 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
