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authorMario Schwalbe <schwalbe@inf.tu-dresden.de>2009-01-11 00:11:34 +0000
committerRichard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>2009-04-06 16:06:55 +0100
commitc78a628849675580c7c5e1f07193c632e4b6827f (patch)
treecfeb5bf04e1a33b2ebeacabe9a0854cc8b1e2473 /drivers/acpi
parent0221c81b1b8eb0cbb6b30a0ced52ead32d2b4e4c (diff)
backlight: Add support for MacBook 5, MacBook Air 2, and MacBook Pro 5
This patch adds support for the new Apple models incorporating an Nvidia chipset. Apple still uses the same protocol as on older models, but the registers moved to a different address. To do this, two sets of functions are added for the Intel/Nvidia chipset models and passed by the DMI_MATCH function. The initial code has been contributed by Hu Gang <hugang@soulinfo.com>. The driver is known to work on MacBook Pro 3, MacBook Pro 4 and MacBook Pro 5. Its known to work with limitations on MacBook 5 / MacBook Air 2. Changing brightness within X doesn't work, if using Nvidia's proprietary graphics driver with no known fix at present. Changing brightness on a text console or using the open-source driver does work. MacBook Pro 5 has a known bug where the initial brightness after bootup is the last recently used brightness (in Mac OSX), while the firmware reports maximum. Impossible to fix. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [rpurdie@linux.intel.com: Rebased the patch against latest git] Signed-off-by: Mario Schwalbe <schwalbe@inf.tu-dresden.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
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