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+ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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+ =====================
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ACPI video extensions
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- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+ =====================
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This driver implement the ACPI Extensions For Display Adapters for
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integrated graphics devices on motherboard, as specified in ACPI 2.0
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setup a video output, etc. Note that this is an ref. implementation
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only. It may or may not work for your integrated video device.
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- The ACPI video driver does 3 things regarding backlight control:
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+ The ACPI video driver does 3 things regarding backlight control.
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- 1 Export a sysfs interface for user space to control backlight level
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+ Export a sysfs interface for user space to control backlight level
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+ ==================================================================
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If the ACPI table has a video device, and acpi_backlight=vendor kernel
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command line is not present, the driver will register a backlight device
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Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight.
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And what ACPI video driver does is:
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- actual_brightness: on read, control method _BQC will be evaluated to
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- get the brightness level the firmware thinks it is at;
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- bl_power: not implemented, will set the current brightness instead;
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- brightness: on write, control method _BCM will run to set the requested
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- brightness level;
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- max_brightness: Derived from the _BCL package(see below);
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- type: firmware
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+ actual_brightness:
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+ on read, control method _BQC will be evaluated to
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+ get the brightness level the firmware thinks it is at;
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+ bl_power:
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+ not implemented, will set the current brightness instead;
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+ brightness:
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+ on write, control method _BCM will run to set the requested brightness level;
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+ max_brightness:
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+ Derived from the _BCL package(see below);
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+ type:
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+ firmware
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Note that ACPI video backlight driver will always use index for
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brightness, actual_brightness and max_brightness. So if we have
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- the following _BCL package:
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+ the following _BCL package::
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- Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized)
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- {
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- Return (Package (0x0C)
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+ Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized)
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{
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- 0x64,
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- 0x32,
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- 0x0A,
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- 0x14,
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- 0x1E,
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- 0x28,
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- 0x32,
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- 0x3C,
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- 0x46,
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- 0x50,
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- 0x5A,
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- 0x64
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- })
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- }
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+ Return (Package (0x0C)
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+ {
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+ 0x64,
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+ 0x32,
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+ 0x0A,
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+ 0x14,
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+ 0x1E,
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+ 0x28,
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+ 0x32,
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+ 0x3C,
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+ 0x46,
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+ 0x50,
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+ 0x5A,
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+ 0x64
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+ })
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+ }
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The first two levels are for when laptop are on AC or on battery and are
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not used by Linux currently. The remaining 10 levels are supported levels
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the range of available brightness levels is from 0 to 9 (max_brightness)
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inclusive.
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- 2 Notify user space about hotkey event
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+ ====================================
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There are generally two cases for hotkey event reporting:
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i) For some laptops, when user presses the hotkey, a scancode will be
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generated and sent to user space through the input device created by
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the keyboard driver as a key type input event, with proper remap, the
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notify value it received and send the event to user space through the
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input device it created:
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event keycode
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etc.
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so this would lead to the same effect as case i) now.
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Once user space tool receives this event, it can modify the backlight
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level through the sysfs interface.
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This works for machines covered by case ii) in Section 2. Once the driver
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received a notification, it will set the backlight level accordingly. This does
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not affect the sending of event to user space, they are always sent to user
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space regardless of whether or not the video module controls the backlight level
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directly. This behaviour can be controlled through the brightness_switch_enabled
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- control of the backlight level.
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+ module parameter as documented in admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst. It is
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+ recommended to disable this behaviour once a GUI environment starts up and
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+ wants to have full control of the backlight level.
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