Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

2014-05-05 Thread Patrik Jakobsson
Hi Matthew, This seems to be in good shape. Do you have anything to add? If not, can you pick this patch up through platform-drivers-x86? Thanks Patrik On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobs...@gmail.com wrote: This driver takes control over the LP8550 backlight

Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

2014-05-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:49 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: Hi Matthew, This seems to be in good shape. Do you have anything to add? If not, can you pick this patch up through platform-drivers-x86? I'm a bit reluctant. Do we have any evidence that this is the way OS X behaves? What's the

Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

2014-05-05 Thread Patrik Jakobsson
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Matthew Garrett matthew.garr...@nebula.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:49 +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: Hi Matthew, This seems to be in good shape. Do you have anything to add? If not, can you pick this patch up through platform-drivers-x86? I'm a bit

Re: [PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

2014-04-30 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 04/29/2014 04:21 PM, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: This driver takes control over the LP8550 backlight driver chip found in the mid 2013 and newer MacBook Air (6,1 and 6,2). The i915 GPU driver cannot properly restore the backlight after resume, but with this driver we can hijack the LP8550

[PATCH v2] mba6x_bl: Backlight driver for mid 2013 MacBook Air

2014-04-29 Thread Patrik Jakobsson
This driver takes control over the LP8550 backlight driver chip found in the mid 2013 and newer MacBook Air (6,1 and 6,2). The i915 GPU driver cannot properly restore the backlight after resume, but with this driver we can hijack the LP8550 and get fully functional backlight support. v2: -