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author | Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> | 2007-02-08 14:16:41 -0500 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-02-13 03:07:27 -0500 |
commit | ab5bd20696485a3f8c2f27058ace1cc1d6b580b3 (patch) | |
tree | bedffd4d510c3c9c6b7e662b6a9fa1796a51a0ac /Documentation | |
parent | a02d1c1d2aa8ad4b2ed8da25e234c8962973f1b8 (diff) |
sony-laptop: Update docs
Update documentation to be consistent with current implementation
(backlight subsys and platform_device).
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt | 87 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sony-laptop.txt | 106 |
2 files changed, 106 insertions, 87 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt b/Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 35a04bea38d7..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt +++ /dev/null | |||
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ | |||
1 | ACPI Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme | ||
2 | ---------------------------------------------- | ||
3 | Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> | ||
4 | |||
5 | This mini-driver drives the ACPI SNC device present in the | ||
6 | ACPI BIOS of the Sony Vaio laptops. | ||
7 | |||
8 | It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In | ||
9 | its current form, this driver is mainly useful for controlling the | ||
10 | screen brightness, but it may do more in the future. | ||
11 | |||
12 | You should probably start by trying the sonypi driver, and try | ||
13 | sony_acpi only if sonypi doesn't work for you. | ||
14 | |||
15 | Usage: | ||
16 | ------ | ||
17 | |||
18 | Loading the sony_acpi module will create a /proc/acpi/sony/ | ||
19 | directory populated with a couple of files. | ||
20 | |||
21 | You then read/write integer values from/to those files by using | ||
22 | standard UNIX tools. | ||
23 | |||
24 | The files are: | ||
25 | brightness current screen brightness | ||
26 | brightness_default screen brightness which will be set | ||
27 | when the laptop will be rebooted | ||
28 | cdpower power on/off the internal CD drive | ||
29 | |||
30 | Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported | ||
31 | by your particular laptop model. | ||
32 | |||
33 | Example usage: | ||
34 | # echo "1" > /proc/acpi/sony/brightness | ||
35 | sets the lowest screen brightness, | ||
36 | # echo "8" > /proc/acpi/sony/brightness | ||
37 | sets the highest screen brightness, | ||
38 | # cat /proc/acpi/sony/brightness | ||
39 | retrieves the current screen brightness. | ||
40 | |||
41 | Development: | ||
42 | ------------ | ||
43 | |||
44 | If you want to help with the development of this driver (and | ||
45 | you are not afraid of any side effects doing strange things with | ||
46 | your ACPI BIOS could have on your laptop), load the driver and | ||
47 | pass the option 'debug=1'. | ||
48 | |||
49 | REPEAT: DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T LIKE RISKY BUSINESS. | ||
50 | |||
51 | In your kernel logs you will find the list of all ACPI methods | ||
52 | the SNC device has on your laptop. You can see the GBRT/SBRT methods | ||
53 | used to get/set the brightness, but there are others. | ||
54 | |||
55 | I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE METHODS DO. | ||
56 | |||
57 | The sony_acpi driver creates, for some of those methods (the most | ||
58 | current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under | ||
59 | /proc/acpi/sony/, just like the 'brightness' one. You can create | ||
60 | other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by further | ||
61 | editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new | ||
62 | structure to this table with your get/set method names). | ||
63 | |||
64 | Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what | ||
65 | those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those | ||
66 | files and find out what is the impact on your laptop. | ||
67 | |||
68 | Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me, | ||
69 | I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :) | ||
70 | |||
71 | Bugs/Limitations: | ||
72 | ----------------- | ||
73 | |||
74 | * This driver is not based on official documentation from Sony | ||
75 | (because there is none), so there is no guarantee this driver | ||
76 | will work at all, or do the right thing. Although this hasn't | ||
77 | happened to me, this driver could do very bad things to your | ||
78 | laptop, including permanent damage. | ||
79 | |||
80 | * The sony_acpi and sonypi drivers do not interact at all. In the | ||
81 | future, sonypi could use sony_acpi to do (part of) its business. | ||
82 | |||
83 | * spicctrl, which is the userspace tool used to communicate with the | ||
84 | sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) does not try to use the | ||
85 | sony_acpi driver. In the future, spicctrl could try sonypi first, | ||
86 | and if it isn't present, try sony_acpi instead. | ||
87 | |||
diff --git a/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt b/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..dfd26df056f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ | |||
1 | Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme | ||
2 | ----------------------------------------- | ||
3 | Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> | ||
4 | Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> | ||
5 | |||
6 | This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of | ||
7 | the Sony Vaio laptops. | ||
8 | |||
9 | It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current | ||
10 | form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness | ||
11 | through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices. | ||
12 | |||
13 | Backlight control: | ||
14 | ------------------ | ||
15 | If your laptop model supports it, you will find sysfs files in the | ||
16 | /sys/class/backlight/sony/ | ||
17 | directory. You will be able to query and set the current screen | ||
18 | brightness: | ||
19 | brightness get/set screen brightness (an iteger | ||
20 | between 0 and 7) | ||
21 | actual_brightness reading from this file will query the HW | ||
22 | to get real brightness value | ||
23 | max_brightness the maximum brightness value | ||
24 | |||
25 | |||
26 | Platform specific: | ||
27 | ------------------ | ||
28 | Loading the sony-laptop module will create a | ||
29 | /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/ | ||
30 | directory populated with some files. | ||
31 | |||
32 | You then read/write integer values from/to those files by using | ||
33 | standard UNIX tools. | ||
34 | |||
35 | The files are: | ||
36 | brightness_default screen brightness which will be set | ||
37 | when the laptop will be rebooted | ||
38 | cdpower power on/off the internal CD drive | ||
39 | audiopower power on/off the internal sound card | ||
40 | lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card | ||
41 | (only in debug mode) | ||
42 | |||
43 | Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported | ||
44 | by your particular laptop model. | ||
45 | |||
46 | Example usage: | ||
47 | # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/brightness_default | ||
48 | sets the lowest screen brightness for the next and later reboots, | ||
49 | # echo "8" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/brightness_default | ||
50 | sets the highest screen brightness for the next and later reboots, | ||
51 | # cat /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/brightness_default | ||
52 | retrieves the value. | ||
53 | |||
54 | # echo "0" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/audiopower | ||
55 | powers off the sound card, | ||
56 | # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/audiopower | ||
57 | powers on the sound card. | ||
58 | |||
59 | Development: | ||
60 | ------------ | ||
61 | |||
62 | If you want to help with the development of this driver (and | ||
63 | you are not afraid of any side effects doing strange things with | ||
64 | your ACPI BIOS could have on your laptop), load the driver and | ||
65 | pass the option 'debug=1'. | ||
66 | |||
67 | REPEAT: DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T LIKE RISKY BUSINESS. | ||
68 | |||
69 | In your kernel logs you will find the list of all ACPI methods | ||
70 | the SNC device has on your laptop. You can see the GCDP/GCDP methods | ||
71 | used to pwer on/off the CD drive, but there are others. | ||
72 | |||
73 | I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE METHODS DO. | ||
74 | |||
75 | The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most | ||
76 | current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under | ||
77 | /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one. | ||
78 | You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by | ||
79 | further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new | ||
80 | entry to this table with your get/set method names using the | ||
81 | HANDLE_NAMES macro). | ||
82 | |||
83 | Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what | ||
84 | those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those | ||
85 | files and find out what is the impact on your laptop. | ||
86 | |||
87 | Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me, | ||
88 | I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :) | ||
89 | |||
90 | Bugs/Limitations: | ||
91 | ----------------- | ||
92 | |||
93 | * This driver is not based on official documentation from Sony | ||
94 | (because there is none), so there is no guarantee this driver | ||
95 | will work at all, or do the right thing. Although this hasn't | ||
96 | happened to me, this driver could do very bad things to your | ||
97 | laptop, including permanent damage. | ||
98 | |||
99 | * The sony-laptop and sonypi drivers do not interact at all. In the | ||
100 | future, sonypi could use sony-laptop to do (part of) its business. | ||
101 | |||
102 | * spicctrl, which is the userspace tool used to communicate with the | ||
103 | sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) does not try to use the | ||
104 | sony-laptop driver. In the future, spicctrl could try sonypi first, | ||
105 | and if it isn't present, try sony-laptop instead. | ||
106 | |||