+Mika & Andy
On Saturday, February 25, 2017 07:23:28 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
> Several cherrytrail devices (all of which ship with windows 10) hide the
> lpss pwm controller in ACPI, typically the _STA method looks like this:
>
> Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized) // _STA: Status
> {
> If (OSID == One)
> {
> Return (Zero)
> }
>
> Return (0x0F)
> }
>
> Where OSID is some dark magic seen in all cherrytrail ACPI tables making
> the machine behave differently depending on which OS it *thinks* it is
> booting, this gets set in a number of ways which we cannot control, on
> some newer machines it simple hardcoded to "One" aka win10.
>
> This causes the PWM controller to get hidden, which means Linux cannot
> control the backlight level on cht based tablets / laptops.
>
> Since loading the driver for this does no harm (the only in kernel user
> of it is the i915 driver, which will only use it when it needs it), this
> commit makes acpi_bus_get_status() always set status to ACPI_STA_DEFAULT
> for the 80862288 device, fixing the lack of backlight control.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/bus.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> index 95855cb..483d4d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> @@ -109,11 +109,36 @@ acpi_status acpi_bus_get_status_handle(acpi_handle handle,
> return status;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Some ACPI devices are hidden (status == 0x0) in recent BIOS-es because
> + * some recent windows drivers bind to one device but poke at multiple
> + * devices at the same time, so the others get hidden.
> + * We work around this by always reporting ACPI_STA_DEFAULT for these
> + * devices. Note this MUST only be done for devices where this is safe.
> + */
> +static const struct acpi_device_id always_present_device_ids[] = {
> + /*
> + * Cherrytrail pwm directly poked by GPU driver in win10,
> + * but Linux uses a separate pwm driver, harmless if not used.
> + */
> + { "80862288", },
> + { }
> +};
> +
> int acpi_bus_get_status(struct acpi_device *device)
> {
> acpi_status status;
> unsigned long long sta;
>
> + /* acpi_match_device_ids checks status, so start with default */
> + acpi_set_device_status(device, ACPI_STA_DEFAULT);
This shouldn't be done in a "get" routine.
Ideally, a scan handler should do that or similar.
> + if (acpi_match_device_ids(device, always_present_device_ids) == 0) {
> + ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Device [%s] is in always present list setting status [%08x]\n",
> + device->pnp.bus_id, ACPI_STA_DEFAULT));
pr_debug() please. The ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() stuff is basically for ACPICA
(yes, I know it is used elsewhere and no, it is not a good idea to do that).
> + return 0;
> + }
> + acpi_set_device_status(device, 0);
> +
> status = acpi_bus_get_status_handle(device->handle, &sta);
> if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> return -ENODEV;
>
Thanks,
Rafael
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