Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] PATCH: Initial support for Lenovo T430

2012-08-30 Thread Andrea Oliveri
Thank you for reply me. It is acceptable to get the EC version directly from the EC register space, > as long as you do DMI matches beforehand. That might be better than a > date-based quirk list. > > You say the string does exist. Where is it? WMI? The string is visible if you use dmidecode (

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] PATCH: Initial support for Lenovo T430

2012-08-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Andrea Oliveri wrote: > 1) Defines a new field in struct tpacpi_quirk: bios_date, an unsigned > int field that contain the bios release date of the machine in this > format MMDD (e.s 04/23/1988 -> 04231988). I introduced it because in > new bioses there isn't the EC version

[ibm-acpi-devel] PATCH: Initial support for Lenovo T430

2012-08-30 Thread Andrea Oliveri
Hello everyone,(sorry for my English..) i made a patch that insert an initial support for Thinkpad T430. The patch makes this changes in driver's structure: 1) Defines a new field in struct tpacpi_quirk: bios_date, an unsigned int field that contain the bios release date of the machine in this fo