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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:17:08 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
Subject:   Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver
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On 30 January 2015 at 22:13, Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me> wrote:
> On 01/30/15 23:20, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Do you have brightness buttons anywhere? What happens when you set it
>> through this API and then you use the backlight buttons?
>
>
> I do, but FreeBSD doesn't have the needed WMI doodads to interact with
> this, nor do I have the needed Dell laptop doodads in the kernel to test
> otherwise.
>
> To get /those/ working will require something else entirely. I have been
> looking at the Linux drivers:
>
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
>
> I'll save those for another day though, this is a bit off-topic. If
> anyone else has laptop keys I'd like to see how they interact too.

*nod* cool. I don't have any Dell hardware and I have no idea how any
of that holds together. :(

I'll wait and see what kib/jhb say and if there aren't any issues I'll
commit your i915 debug patch.



-adrian



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