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2009-04-06backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl - Add a debug switchMario Schwalbe
This patch adds a debug switch to enable (little) diagnostic output, to help to trace down the remaining problems. 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>
2009-04-06backlight: Add support for MacBook 5, MacBook Air 2, and MacBook Pro 5Mario Schwalbe
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>
2009-01-08backlight: Add suspend/resume support to the backlight coreRichard Purdie
Add suspend/resume support to the backlight core and enable use of it by appropriate drivers. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-13Fix autoloading of MacBook Pro backlight driver.David Woodhouse
Use new MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, ...) facility. There's no need for every driver to screw it up for themselves, when the alias can be generated automatically. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-07-23backlight: Add Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pro backlight driverMatthew Garrett
Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros don't appear to handle backlight control through the graphics card registers or ACPI, but instead trigger changes via SMI calls. This driver registers a generic backlight device that lets existing userspace deal with it. Code derived from Julien Blache's Pommed application. Signed-off-by: Julien Blache <jb@jblache.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>