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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001 ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh50efd832008-01-08 13:02:42 -02003 Version 0.18
4 October 08th, 2007
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005
6 Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhc78d5c92007-07-18 23:45:47 -03007 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
8 http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009
10
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -030011This is a Linux driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It
12supports various features of these laptops which are accessible
13through the ACPI and ACPI EC framework, but not otherwise fully
14supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers.
15
16This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release
170.13-20070314. It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was
18moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel
192.6.22, and release 0.14.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020
21
22Status
23------
24
25The features currently supported are the following (see below for
26detailed description):
27
28 - Fn key combinations
29 - Bluetooth enable and disable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh837ca6d2007-03-23 17:33:54 -030030 - video output switching, expansion control
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070031 - ThinkLight on and off
32 - limited docking and undocking
33 - UltraBay eject
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -040034 - CMOS control
35 - LED control
36 - ACPI sounds
37 - temperature sensors
38 - Experimental: embedded controller register dump
Stefan Schmidt24f7ff02006-09-22 12:19:15 +020039 - LCD brightness control
40 - Volume control
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -030041 - Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
Stefan Schmidt28b779d2006-09-22 12:19:16 +020042 - Experimental: WAN enable and disable
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043
44A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
45site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure
46reports, especially if they add to or correct the compatibility table.
47Please include the following information in your report:
48
49 - ThinkPad model name
50 - a copy of your DSDT, from /proc/acpi/dsdt
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -030051 - a copy of the output of dmidecode, with serial numbers
52 and UUIDs masked off
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070053 - which driver features work and which don't
54 - the observed behavior of non-working features
55
56Any other comments or patches are also more than welcome.
57
58
59Installation
60------------
61
62If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -030063sources, simply enable the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI option, and optionally
64enable the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_BAY option if you want the
65thinkpad-specific bay functionality.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066
67Features
68--------
69
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh54ae1502007-04-24 11:48:12 -030070The driver exports two different interfaces to userspace, which can be
71used to access the features it provides. One is a legacy procfs-based
72interface, which will be removed at some time in the distant future.
73The other is a new sysfs-based interface which is not complete yet.
74
75The procfs interface creates the /proc/acpi/ibm directory. There is a
76file under that directory for each feature it supports. The procfs
77interface is mostly frozen, and will change very little if at all: it
78will not be extended to add any new functionality in the driver, instead
79all new functionality will be implemented on the sysfs interface.
80
81The sysfs interface tries to blend in the generic Linux sysfs subsystems
82and classes as much as possible. Since some of these subsystems are not
83yet ready or stabilized, it is expected that this interface will change,
84and any and all userspace programs must deal with it.
85
86
87Notes about the sysfs interface:
88
89Unlike what was done with the procfs interface, correctness when talking
90to the sysfs interfaces will be enforced, as will correctness in the
91thinkpad-acpi's implementation of sysfs interfaces.
92
93Also, any bugs in the thinkpad-acpi sysfs driver code or in the
94thinkpad-acpi's implementation of the sysfs interfaces will be fixed for
95maximum correctness, even if that means changing an interface in
96non-compatible ways. As these interfaces mature both in the kernel and
97in thinkpad-acpi, such changes should become quite rare.
98
99Applications interfacing to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interfaces must
100follow all sysfs guidelines and correctly process all errors (the sysfs
101interface makes extensive use of errors). File descriptors and open /
102close operations to the sysfs inodes must also be properly implemented.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700103
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300104The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver
105as a driver attribute (see below).
106
107Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300108for 2.6.23 this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and
109/sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300110
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300111Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute
112space, for 2.6.23 this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/.
113
114Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the
115thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it
116looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad".
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300117
118Driver version
119--------------
120
121procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/driver
122sysfs driver attribute: version
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700123
124The driver name and version. No commands can be written to this file.
125
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300126Sysfs interface version
127-----------------------
128
129sysfs driver attribute: interface_version
130
131Version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface, as an unsigned long
132(output in hex format: 0xAAAABBCC), where:
133 AAAA - major revision
134 BB - minor revision
135 CC - bugfix revision
136
137The sysfs interface version changelog for the driver can be found at the
138end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel
139subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this
140attribute.
141
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh94b08712007-07-18 23:45:32 -0300142Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered
143non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which
144point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version
145may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet
146sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features
147may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by
148the time they are merged in Linux mainline.
149
150Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of
151attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not
152always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must
153expect that an attribute might not be there, and deal with it properly
154(an attribute not being there *is* a valid way to make it clear that a
155feature is not available in sysfs).
156
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300157Hot keys
158--------
159
160procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300161sysfs device attribute: hotkey_*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700162
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300163In a ThinkPad, the ACPI HKEY handler is responsible for comunicating
164some important events and also keyboard hot key presses to the operating
165system. Enabling the hotkey functionality of thinkpad-acpi signals the
166firmware that such a driver is present, and modifies how the ThinkPad
167firmware will behave in many situations.
168
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300169The driver enables the hot key feature automatically when loaded. The
170feature can later be disabled and enabled back at runtime. The driver
171will also restore the hot key feature to its previous state and mask
172when it is unloaded.
173
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300174When the hotkey feature is enabled and the hot key mask is set (see
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300175below), the driver will report HKEY events in the following format:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700176
177 ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000xxxx
178
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300179Some of these events refer to hot key presses, but not all.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300180
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300181The driver will generate events over the input layer for hot keys and
182radio switches, and over the ACPI netlink layer for other events. The
183input layer support accepts the standard IOCTLs to remap the keycodes
184assigned to each hot key.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300185
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300186The hot key bit mask allows some control over which hot keys generate
187events. If a key is "masked" (bit set to 0 in the mask), the firmware
188will handle it. If it is "unmasked", it signals the firmware that
189thinkpad-acpi would prefer to handle it, if the firmware would be so
190kind to allow it (and it often doesn't!).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700191
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300192Not all bits in the mask can be modified. Not all bits that can be
193modified do anything. Not all hot keys can be individually controlled
194by the mask. Some models do not support the mask at all, and in those
195models, hot keys cannot be controlled individually. The behaviour of
196the mask is, therefore, higly dependent on the ThinkPad model.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhae92bd12007-07-18 23:45:29 -0300197
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300198Note that unmasking some keys prevents their default behavior. For
199example, if Fn+F5 is unmasked, that key will no longer enable/disable
200Bluetooth by itself.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700201
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300202Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI.
203For example, on the X40, the brightness, volume and "Access IBM" buttons
204do not generate ACPI events even with this driver. They *can* be used
205through the "ThinkPad Buttons" utility, see http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700206
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300207procfs notes:
208
209The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file:
210
211 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- enable the hot keys feature
212 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- disable the hot keys feature
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhae92bd12007-07-18 23:45:29 -0300213 echo 0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- enable all hot keys
214 echo 0 > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- disable all possible hot keys
215 ... any other 8-hex-digit mask ...
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300216 echo reset > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- restore the original mask
217
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200218The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control. So as to
219maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks,
220nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware
221does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use.
222
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300223sysfs notes:
224
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300225 hotkey_bios_enabled:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300226 Returns the status of the hot keys feature when
227 thinkpad-acpi was loaded. Upon module unload, the hot
228 key feature status will be restored to this value.
229
230 0: hot keys were disabled
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300231 1: hot keys were enabled (unusual)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300232
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300233 hotkey_bios_mask:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300234 Returns the hot keys mask when thinkpad-acpi was loaded.
235 Upon module unload, the hot keys mask will be restored
236 to this value.
237
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300238 hotkey_enable:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200239 Enables/disables the hot keys feature in the ACPI
240 firmware, and reports current status of the hot keys
241 feature. Has no effect on the NVRAM hot key polling
242 functionality.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300243
244 0: disables the hot keys feature / feature disabled
245 1: enables the hot keys feature / feature enabled
246
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300247 hotkey_mask:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200248 bit mask to enable driver-handling (and depending on
249 the firmware, ACPI event generation) for each hot key
250 (see above). Returns the current status of the hot keys
251 mask, and allows one to modify it.
252
253 Note: when NVRAM polling is active, the firmware mask
254 will be different from the value returned by
255 hotkey_mask. The driver will retain enabled bits for
256 hotkeys that are under NVRAM polling even if the
257 firmware refuses them, and will not set these bits on
258 the firmware hot key mask.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300259
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh9b010de2007-07-18 23:45:30 -0300260 hotkey_all_mask:
261 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
262 supported hot keys, when echoed to hotkey_mask above.
263 Unless you know which events need to be handled
264 passively (because the firmware *will* handle them
265 anyway), do *not* use hotkey_all_mask. Use
266 hotkey_recommended_mask, instead. You have been warned.
267
268 hotkey_recommended_mask:
269 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300270 supported hot keys, except those which are always
271 handled by the firmware anyway. Echo it to
272 hotkey_mask above, to use.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh9b010de2007-07-18 23:45:30 -0300273
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200274 hotkey_source_mask:
275 bit mask that selects which hot keys will the driver
276 poll the NVRAM for. This is auto-detected by the driver
277 based on the capabilities reported by the ACPI firmware,
278 but it can be overridden at runtime.
279
280 Hot keys whose bits are set in both hotkey_source_mask
281 and also on hotkey_mask are polled for in NVRAM. Only a
282 few hot keys are available through CMOS NVRAM polling.
283
284 Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute
285 keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer,
286 so you have to use volume up or volume down to unmute,
287 as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface. When
288 in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute are reported as
289 separate events, but this behaviour may be corrected in
290 future releases of this driver, in which case the
291 ThinkPad volume mixer user interface semanthics will be
292 enforced.
293
294 hotkey_poll_freq:
295 frequency in Hz for hot key polling. It must be between
296 0 and 25 Hz. Polling is only carried out when strictly
297 needed.
298
299 Setting hotkey_poll_freq to zero disables polling, and
300 will cause hot key presses that require NVRAM polling
301 to never be reported.
302
303 Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low will cause repeated
304 pressings of the same hot key to be misreported as a
305 single key press, or to not even be detected at all.
306 The recommended polling frequency is 10Hz.
307
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh74941a62007-07-18 23:45:31 -0300308 hotkey_radio_sw:
309 if the ThinkPad has a hardware radio switch, this
310 attribute will read 0 if the switch is in the "radios
311 disabled" postition, and 1 if the switch is in the
312 "radios enabled" position.
313
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300314 hotkey_report_mode:
315 Returns the state of the procfs ACPI event report mode
316 filter for hot keys. If it is set to 1 (the default),
317 all hot key presses are reported both through the input
318 layer and also as ACPI events through procfs (but not
319 through netlink). If it is set to 2, hot key presses
320 are reported only through the input layer.
321
322 This attribute is read-only in kernels 2.6.23 or later,
323 and read-write on earlier kernels.
324
325 May return -EPERM (write access locked out by module
326 parameter) or -EACCES (read-only).
327
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -0200328 wakeup_reason:
329 Set to 1 if the system is waking up because the user
330 requested a bay ejection. Set to 2 if the system is
331 waking up because the user requested the system to
332 undock. Set to zero for normal wake-ups or wake-ups
333 due to unknown reasons.
334
335 wakeup_hotunplug_complete:
336 Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an
337 undock or bay ejection request, and that request
338 was sucessfully completed. At this point, it might
339 be useful to send the system back to sleep, at the
340 user's choice. Refer to HKEY events 0x4003 and
341 0x3003, below.
342
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300343input layer notes:
344
345A Hot key is mapped to a single input layer EV_KEY event, possibly
346followed by an EV_MSC MSC_SCAN event that shall contain that key's scan
347code. An EV_SYN event will always be generated to mark the end of the
348event block.
349
350Do not use the EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events to process keys. They are to be
351used as a helper to remap keys, only. They are particularly useful when
352remapping KEY_UNKNOWN keys.
353
354The events are available in an input device, with the following id:
355
356 Bus: BUS_HOST
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300357 vendor: 0x1014 (PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM) or
358 0x17aa (PCI_VENDOR_ID_LENOVO)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300359 product: 0x5054 ("TP")
360 version: 0x4101
361
362The version will have its LSB incremented if the keymap changes in a
363backwards-compatible way. The MSB shall always be 0x41 for this input
364device. If the MSB is not 0x41, do not use the device as described in
365this section, as it is either something else (e.g. another input device
366exported by a thinkpad driver, such as HDAPS) or its functionality has
367been changed in a non-backwards compatible way.
368
369Adding other event types for other functionalities shall be considered a
370backwards-compatible change for this input device.
371
372Thinkpad-acpi Hot Key event map (version 0x4101):
373
374ACPI Scan
375event code Key Notes
376
3770x1001 0x00 FN+F1 -
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03003780x1002 0x01 FN+F2 IBM: battery (rare)
379 Lenovo: Screen lock
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300380
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03003810x1003 0x02 FN+F3 Many IBM models always report
382 this hot key, even with hot keys
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300383 disabled or with Fn+F3 masked
384 off
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300385 IBM: screen lock
386 Lenovo: battery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300387
3880x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button
389 semanthics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM).
390 It is always generate some kind
391 of event, either the hot key
392 event or a ACPI sleep button
393 event. The firmware may
394 refuse to generate further FN+F4
395 key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI
396 sleep cycle is performed or some
397 time passes.
398
3990x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables
400 the internal BlueTooth hardware
401 and W-WAN card if left in control
402 of the firmware. Does not affect
403 the WLAN card.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300404 Should be used to turn on/off all
405 radios (bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN),
406 really.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300407
4080x1006 0x05 FN+F6 -
409
4100x1007 0x06 FN+F7 Video output cycle.
411 Do you feel lucky today?
412
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03004130x1008 0x07 FN+F8 IBM: toggle screen expand
414 Lenovo: configure ultranav
415
4160x1009 0x08 FN+F9 -
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300417 .. .. ..
4180x100B 0x0A FN+F11 -
419
4200x100C 0x0B FN+F12 Sleep to disk. You are always
421 supposed to handle it yourself,
422 either through the ACPI event,
423 or through a hotkey event.
424 The firmware may refuse to
425 generate further FN+F4 key
426 press events until a S3 or S4
427 ACPI sleep cycle is performed,
428 or some time passes.
429
4300x100D 0x0C FN+BACKSPACE -
4310x100E 0x0D FN+INSERT -
4320x100F 0x0E FN+DELETE -
433
4340x1010 0x0F FN+HOME Brightness up. This key is
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300435 always handled by the firmware
436 in IBM ThinkPads, even when
437 unmasked. Just leave it alone.
438 For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new
439 BIOS, it has to be handled either
440 by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace.
4410x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness
442 up for details.
443
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -03004440x1012 0x11 FN+PGUP Thinklight toggle. This key is
445 always handled by the firmware,
446 even when unmasked.
447
4480x1013 0x12 FN+PGDOWN -
449
4500x1014 0x13 FN+SPACE Zoom key
451
4520x1015 0x14 VOLUME UP Internal mixer volume up. This
453 key is always handled by the
454 firmware, even when unmasked.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300455 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
456 this.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -03004570x1016 0x15 VOLUME DOWN Internal mixer volume up. This
458 key is always handled by the
459 firmware, even when unmasked.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300460 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
461 this.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -03004620x1017 0x16 MUTE Mute internal mixer. This
463 key is always handled by the
464 firmware, even when unmasked.
465
4660x1018 0x17 THINKPAD Thinkpad/Access IBM/Lenovo key
467
4680x1019 0x18 unknown
469.. .. ..
4700x1020 0x1F unknown
471
472The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot
473keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet).
474For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and
475immediately issues the same set of events for a key release. It is
476unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on
477hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not
478both.
479
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300480If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300481If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300482includes an scan code. If a key is mapped to anything else, it will
483generate input device EV_KEY events.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300484
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300485Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map:
4860x5001 Lid closed
4870x5002 Lid opened
4880x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state
489
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300490The above events are not propagated by the driver, except for legacy
491compatibility purposes when hotkey_report_mode is set to 1.
492
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -02004930x2304 System is waking up from suspend to undock
4940x2305 System is waking up from suspend to eject bay
4950x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
4960x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
497
498The above events are never propagated by the driver.
499
5000x3003 Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again
5010x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd1edb2b2008-01-08 13:02:53 -02005020x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode
5030x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode
5040x500B Tablet pen insterted into its storage bay
5050x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh3b64b512008-01-08 13:02:51 -02005060x5010 Brightness level changed (newer Lenovo BIOSes)
507
508The above events are propagated by the driver.
509
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300510Compatibility notes:
511
512ibm-acpi and thinkpad-acpi 0.15 (mainline kernels before 2.6.23) never
513supported the input layer, and sent events over the procfs ACPI event
514interface.
515
516To avoid sending duplicate events over the input layer and the ACPI
517event interface, thinkpad-acpi 0.16 implements a module parameter
518(hotkey_report_mode), and also a sysfs device attribute with the same
519name.
520
521Make no mistake here: userspace is expected to switch to using the input
522layer interface of thinkpad-acpi, together with the ACPI netlink event
523interface in kernels 2.6.23 and later, or with the ACPI procfs event
524interface in kernels 2.6.22 and earlier.
525
526If no hotkey_report_mode module parameter is specified (or it is set to
527zero), the driver defaults to mode 1 (see below), and on kernels 2.6.22
528and earlier, also allows one to change the hotkey_report_mode through
529sysfs. In kernels 2.6.23 and later, where the netlink ACPI event
530interface is available, hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed through
531sysfs (it is read-only).
532
533If the hotkey_report_mode module parameter is set to 1 or 2, it cannot
534be changed later through sysfs (any writes will return -EPERM to signal
535that hotkey_report_mode was locked. On 2.6.23 and later, where
536hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed at all, writes will return -EACES).
537
538hotkey_report_mode set to 1 makes the driver export through the procfs
539ACPI event interface all hot key presses (which are *also* sent to the
540input layer). This is a legacy compatibility behaviour, and it is also
541the default mode of operation for the driver.
542
543hotkey_report_mode set to 2 makes the driver filter out the hot key
544presses from the procfs ACPI event interface, so these events will only
545be sent through the input layer. Userspace that has been updated to use
546the thinkpad-acpi input layer interface should set hotkey_report_mode to
5472.
548
549Hot key press events are never sent to the ACPI netlink event interface.
550Really up-to-date userspace under kernel 2.6.23 and later is to use the
551netlink interface and the input layer interface, and don't bother at all
552with hotkey_report_mode.
553
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300554
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300555Bluetooth
556---------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700557
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300558procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300559sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300560
561This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad
562Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot.
563
564Procfs notes:
565
566If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700567
568 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
569 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
570
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300571Sysfs notes:
572
573 If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled /
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300574 disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300575 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
576
577 enable:
578 0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled
579 1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled.
580
581 Note: this interface will be probably be superseeded by the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300582 generic rfkill class, so it is NOT to be considered stable yet.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300583
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700584Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video
585--------------------------------------------
586
587This feature allows control over the devices used for video output -
588LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available:
589
590 echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
591 echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
592 echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
593 echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
594 echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
595 echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
596 echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
597 echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
598 echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
599 echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
600
601Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually.
602Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device.
603
604Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled. When automatic
605video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid,
606docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change
607automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering
608and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching,
609the flickering or video corruption can be avoided.
610
611The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400612(it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700613
614Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls
615whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a
616mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current
617video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature.
618
619Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics
620chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents
621Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching
622features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as
623Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work.
624
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400625UPDATE: There's now a patch for the X.org Radeon driver which
626addresses this issue. Some people are reporting success with the patch
627while others are still having problems. For more information:
628
629https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000
630
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700631ThinkLight control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/light
632------------------------------------------
633
634The current status of the ThinkLight can be found in this file. A few
635models which do not make the status available will show it as
636"unknown". The available commands are:
637
638 echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
639 echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
640
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400641Docking / undocking -- /proc/acpi/ibm/dock
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700642------------------------------------------
643
644Docking and undocking (e.g. with the X4 UltraBase) requires some
645actions to be taken by the operating system to safely make or break
646the electrical connections with the dock.
647
648The docking feature of this driver generates the following ACPI events:
649
650 ibm/dock GDCK 00000003 00000001 -- eject request
651 ibm/dock GDCK 00000003 00000002 -- undocked
652 ibm/dock GDCK 00000000 00000003 -- docked
653
654NOTE: These events will only be generated if the laptop was docked
655when originally booted. This is due to the current lack of support for
656hot plugging of devices in the Linux ACPI framework. If the laptop was
657booted while not in the dock, the following message is shown in the
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400658logs:
659
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -0300660 Mar 17 01:42:34 aero kernel: thinkpad_acpi: dock device not present
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400661
662In this case, no dock-related events are generated but the dock and
663undock commands described below still work. They can be executed
664manually or triggered by Fn key combinations (see the example acpid
665configuration files included in the driver tarball package available
666on the web site).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700667
668When the eject request button on the dock is pressed, the first event
669above is generated. The handler for this event should issue the
670following command:
671
672 echo undock > /proc/acpi/ibm/dock
673
674After the LED on the dock goes off, it is safe to eject the laptop.
675Note: if you pressed this key by mistake, go ahead and eject the
676laptop, then dock it back in. Otherwise, the dock may not function as
677expected.
678
679When the laptop is docked, the third event above is generated. The
680handler for this event should issue the following command to fully
681enable the dock:
682
683 echo dock > /proc/acpi/ibm/dock
684
685The contents of the /proc/acpi/ibm/dock file shows the current status
686of the dock, as provided by the ACPI framework.
687
688The docking support in this driver does not take care of enabling or
689disabling any other devices you may have attached to the dock. For
690example, a CD drive plugged into the UltraBase needs to be disabled or
691enabled separately. See the provided example acpid configuration files
692for how this can be accomplished.
693
694There is no support yet for PCI devices that may be attached to a
695docking station, e.g. in the ThinkPad Dock II. The driver currently
696does not recognize, enable or disable such devices. This means that
697the only docking stations currently supported are the X-series
698UltraBase docks and "dumb" port replicators like the Mini Dock (the
699latter don't need any ACPI support, actually).
700
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400701UltraBay eject -- /proc/acpi/ibm/bay
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700702------------------------------------
703
704Inserting or ejecting an UltraBay device requires some actions to be
705taken by the operating system to safely make or break the electrical
706connections with the device.
707
708This feature generates the following ACPI events:
709
710 ibm/bay MSTR 00000003 00000000 -- eject request
711 ibm/bay MSTR 00000001 00000000 -- eject lever inserted
712
713NOTE: These events will only be generated if the UltraBay was present
714when the laptop was originally booted (on the X series, the UltraBay
715is in the dock, so it may not be present if the laptop was undocked).
716This is due to the current lack of support for hot plugging of devices
717in the Linux ACPI framework. If the laptop was booted without the
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400718UltraBay, the following message is shown in the logs:
719
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -0300720 Mar 17 01:42:34 aero kernel: thinkpad_acpi: bay device not present
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400721
722In this case, no bay-related events are generated but the eject
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700723command described below still works. It can be executed manually or
724triggered by a hot key combination.
725
726Sliding the eject lever generates the first event shown above. The
727handler for this event should take whatever actions are necessary to
728shut down the device in the UltraBay (e.g. call idectl), then issue
729the following command:
730
731 echo eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay
732
733After the LED on the UltraBay goes off, it is safe to pull out the
734device.
735
736When the eject lever is inserted, the second event above is
737generated. The handler for this event should take whatever actions are
738necessary to enable the UltraBay device (e.g. call idectl).
739
740The contents of the /proc/acpi/ibm/bay file shows the current status
741of the UltraBay, as provided by the ACPI framework.
742
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400743EXPERIMENTAL warm eject support on the 600e/x, A22p and A3x (To use
744this feature, you need to supply the experimental=1 parameter when
745loading the module):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700746
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400747These models do not have a button near the UltraBay device to request
748a hot eject but rather require the laptop to be put to sleep
749(suspend-to-ram) before the bay device is ejected or inserted).
750The sequence of steps to eject the device is as follows:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700751
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400752 echo eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay
753 put the ThinkPad to sleep
754 remove the drive
755 resume from sleep
756 cat /proc/acpi/ibm/bay should show that the drive was removed
757
758On the A3x, both the UltraBay 2000 and UltraBay Plus devices are
759supported. Use "eject2" instead of "eject" for the second bay.
760
761Note: the UltraBay eject support on the 600e/x, A22p and A3x is
762EXPERIMENTAL and may not work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION!
763
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300764CMOS control
765------------
766
767procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos
768sysfs device attribute: cmos_command
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700769
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300770This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy
771CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this
772state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots.
773
774Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but
775this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models. As an example, in
776a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for
777real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been
778phased out) and just update the NVRAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700779
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300780The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an
781effect and the behavior varies from model to model. Here is the behavior
782on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700783
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300784 0 - Related to "Volume down" key press
785 1 - Related to "Volume up" key press
786 2 - Related to "Mute on" key press
787 3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press
788 4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key pess
789 5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press
790 11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function
791 12 - Related to "ThinkLight on"
792 13 - Related to "ThinkLight off"
793 14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle thinklight)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700794
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300795The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300796in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer. Do not use it, it is
797exported just as a debug tool.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300798
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400799LED control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/led
800---------------------------------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700801
802Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. The
803available commands are:
804
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400805 echo '<led number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
806 echo '<led number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
807 echo '<led number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700808
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400809The <led number> range is 0 to 7. The set of LEDs that can be
810controlled varies from model to model. Here is the mapping on the X40:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700811
812 0 - power
813 1 - battery (orange)
814 2 - battery (green)
815 3 - UltraBase
816 4 - UltraBay
817 7 - standby
818
819All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink.
820
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400821ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep
822----------------------------------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700823
824The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400825audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700826sounds to be triggered manually.
827
828The commands are non-negative integer numbers:
829
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400830 echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700831
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400832The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds
833and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the
834X40:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700835
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400836 0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16)
837 2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery")
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700838 3 - single beep
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400839 4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable")
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700840 5 - single beep
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400841 6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC")
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700842 7 - high-pitched beep
843 9 - three short beeps
844 10 - very long beep
845 12 - low-pitched beep
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400846 15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0
847 16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17
848 17 - stop 16
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700849
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2c37aa42007-04-24 11:48:16 -0300850Temperature sensors
851-------------------
852
853procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300854sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700855
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh3d6f99c2007-07-18 23:45:46 -0300856Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
857expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This
858feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
859ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -0200860
861For example, on the X40, a typical output may be:
862temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128
863
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh3d6f99c2007-07-18 23:45:46 -0300864On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -0200865temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
866
867The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on
868system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model).
869
870http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that
871tries to track down these locations for various models.
872
873Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern:
874
8751: CPU
8762: (depends on model)
8773: (depends on model)
8784: GPU
8795: Main battery: main sensor
8806: Bay battery: main sensor
8817: Main battery: secondary sensor
8828: Bay battery: secondary sensor
8839-15: (depends on model)
884
885For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber):
8862: Mini-PCI
8873: Internal HDD
888
889For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org)
890http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p
8912: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp
8923: PCMCIA slot
8939: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb8b26402007-07-18 23:45:28 -030089410: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI
895 card, under touchpad
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -020089611: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key
897
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh88679a12006-11-24 11:47:09 -0200898The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors
899(source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31)
9001: CPU
9012: Main Battery: main sensor
9023: Power Converter
9034: Bay Battery: main sensor
9045: MCH (northbridge)
9056: PCMCIA/ambient
9067: Main Battery: secondary sensor
9078: Bay Battery: secondary sensor
908
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -0200909
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2c37aa42007-04-24 11:48:16 -0300910Procfs notes:
911 Readings from sensors that are not available return -128.
912 No commands can be written to this file.
913
914Sysfs notes:
915 Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error. This
916 status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal
917 sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks.
918
919 thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon
920 subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at
921 Documentation/hwmon.
922
923
Matt LaPlanted6bc8ac2006-10-03 22:54:15 +0200924EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump -- /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400925------------------------------------------------------------------------
926
927This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
928directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
929WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
930experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
931
932This feature dumps the values of 256 embedded controller
933registers. Values which have changed since the last time the registers
934were dumped are marked with a star:
935
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh837ca6d2007-03-23 17:33:54 -0300936[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400937EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f
938EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00
939EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00
940EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80
941EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 *85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00
942EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
943EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 *bc *02 *bc
944EC 0x60: *02 *bc *02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
945EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 *24 *26 *2c *27 *20 80 *1f 80
946EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *37 *0e 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00
947EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
948EC 0xa0: *ff 09 ff 09 ff ff *64 00 *00 *00 *a2 41 *ff *ff *e0 00
949EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
950EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
951EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
952EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03
953EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a
954
955This feature can be used to determine the register holding the fan
956speed on some models. To do that, do the following:
957
958 - make sure the battery is fully charged
959 - make sure the fan is running
960 - run 'cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump' several times, once per second or so
961
962The first step makes sure various charging-related values don't
963vary. The second ensures that the fan-related values do vary, since
964the fan speed fluctuates a bit. The third will (hopefully) mark the
965fan register with a star:
966
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh837ca6d2007-03-23 17:33:54 -0300967[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400968EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f
969EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00
970EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00
971EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80
972EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00
973EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
974EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 bc 02 bc
975EC 0x60: 02 bc 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
976EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 24 27 2c 27 21 80 1f 80
977EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *be 0d 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00
978EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
979EC 0xa0: ff 09 ff 09 ff ff 64 00 00 00 a2 41 ff ff e0 00
980EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
981EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
982EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
983EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03
984EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a
985
986Another set of values that varies often is the temperature
987readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take
988several quick dumps to eliminate them.
989
990You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other
991embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes
992except the charging or discharging battery to determine which
993registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
994with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
995a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
996
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -0300997LCD brightness control
998----------------------
999
1000procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1001sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen"
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001002
1003This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001004models which don't have a hardware brightness slider.
1005
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001006It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned on or
1007off by this interface, and in many ThinkPad models, the "dim while on
1008battery" functionality will be enabled by the BIOS when this interface is
1009used, and cannot be controlled.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001010
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001011On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control
1012has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the levels
1013may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
1014display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
1015from 0 to 15.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001016
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001017There are two interfaces to the firmware for direct brightness control,
1018EC and CMOS. To select which one should be used, use the
1019brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects EC mode,
1020brightness_mode=2 selects CMOS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects both EC
1021and CMOS. The driver tries to autodetect which interface to use.
1022
1023When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
1024standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe11e2112007-10-30 17:46:22 -02001025ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native
1026backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard
1027ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh24d3b772007-07-18 23:45:43 -03001028
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh87cc5372007-10-30 18:02:07 -02001029The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether
1030the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe11e2112007-10-30 17:46:22 -02001031brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled. brightness_enable=1
1032forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI
1033interface is also available.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh87cc5372007-10-30 18:02:07 -02001034
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001035Procfs notes:
1036
1037 The available commands are:
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001038
1039 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1040 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1041 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1042
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001043Sysfs notes:
1044
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001045The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is
1046poorly documented at this time.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001047
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001048Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside
1049it there will be the following attributes:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001050
1051 max_brightness:
1052 Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to.
1053 The minimum is always zero.
1054
1055 actual_brightness:
1056 Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant.
1057
1058 brightness:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001059 Writes request the driver to change brightness to the
1060 given value. Reads will tell you what brightness the
1061 driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set
1062 to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel
1063 power management event.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001064
1065 power:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001066 power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3
1067 will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0
1068 because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight
1069 off. Kernel power management events can temporarily
1070 increase the current power management level, i.e. they can
1071 dim the display.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001072
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001073
Stefan Schmidt24f7ff02006-09-22 12:19:15 +02001074Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1075---------------------------------------
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001076
1077This feature allows volume control on ThinkPad models which don't have
1078a hardware volume knob. The available commands are:
1079
1080 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1081 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1082 echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1083 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1084
1085The <level> number range is 0 to 15 although not all of them may be
1086distinct. The unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the
1087up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume).
1088The current volume level and mute state is shown in the file.
1089
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -03001090Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
1091---------------------------------------------------------
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001092
1093procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001094sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1,
1095 pwm1_enable
1096sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001097
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -03001098NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for
1099safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1"
1100must be given to thinkpad-acpi.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001101
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001102This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and
1103other fan data that might be available. The speed is read directly
1104from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -03001105to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001106value on other models.
1107
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001108Fan levels:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001109
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001110Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0
1111stops the fan. The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although
1112adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed. 7 is the highest
1113level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001114
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001115Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some
1116internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001117
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001118There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level.
1119In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control,
1120and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware
1121limits, so use this level with caution.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001122
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001123The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and
1124it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan
1125commands. The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to
1126maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale
1127while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001128
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001129WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are
1130monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to
1131enable it if necessary to avoid overheating.
1132
1133An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the
1134ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow. This is
Matt LaPlante01dd2fb2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02001135normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001136rise too much.
1137
1138On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures.
1139Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature
1140climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees. The
1141fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the
1142HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees. These thresholds cannot
1143currently be controlled.
1144
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001145The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when
1146certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001147through thinkpad-acpi.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001148
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001149The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001150level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs
1151fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there
1152are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is
1153set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to
1154120 seconds. This functionality is called fan safety watchdog.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001155
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001156Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will be
1157rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the
1158above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is,
1159therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through
1160means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan
1161commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001162
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001163Procfs notes:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001164
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001165The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands:
1166
1167 echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1168 echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1169
1170Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it. Enabling a fan
1171will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled.
1172
1173The fan level can be controlled with the command:
1174
1175 echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1176
1177Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or
1178"full-speed" (without the quotes). Not all ThinkPads support the "auto"
1179and "full-speed" levels. The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for
1180"full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards
1181compatibility.
1182
1183On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be
1184controlled to a certain degree. Once the fan is running, it can be
1185forced to run faster or slower with the following command:
1186
1187 echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1188
1189The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about
11903700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any
1191effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range. The
1192fan cannot be stopped or started with this command. This functionality
1193is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface.
1194
1195To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command.
1196
1197 echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1198
1199If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval.
1200
1201Sysfs notes:
1202
1203The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most
1204part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog.
1205
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb39fe582007-04-27 22:00:13 -03001206Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if
1207that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter
1208is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden. They may also return
1209EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk
1210to the firmware).
1211
1212Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS.
1213
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001214hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable:
1215 0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode)
1216 1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level)
1217 2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode)
1218 3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet)
1219
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb39fe582007-04-27 22:00:13 -03001220 Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the
1221 driver is not always able to detect this. If it does know a
1222 mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001223
1224hwmon device attribute pwm1:
1225 Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon
1226 scale of 0-255. 0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal
1227 speed (level 7).
1228
1229 This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1
1230 (manual PWM control).
1231
1232hwmon device attribute fan1_input:
1233 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM. May go stale on certain
1234 ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode,
1235 which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older
1236 ThinkPads.
1237
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001238hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001239 Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is
1240 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog.
1241
1242To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1.
1243
1244To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2. If that fails
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb39fe582007-04-27 22:00:13 -03001245with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255
1246would be the safest choice, though).
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001247
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001248
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001249EXPERIMENTAL: WAN
1250-----------------
1251
1252procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -03001253sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable
Stefan Schmidt28b779d2006-09-22 12:19:16 +02001254
1255This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
1256directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
1257WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
1258experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
1259
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001260This feature shows the presence and current state of a W-WAN (Sierra
1261Wireless EV-DO) device.
1262
1263It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other
1264Thinkpad models which come with this module installed.
1265
1266Procfs notes:
1267
1268If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used:
Stefan Schmidt28b779d2006-09-22 12:19:16 +02001269
1270 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1271 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1272
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001273Sysfs notes:
1274
1275 If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled /
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -03001276 disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001277 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
1278
1279 enable:
1280 0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled
1281 1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled.
1282
1283 Note: this interface will be probably be superseeded by the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -03001284 generic rfkill class, so it is NOT to be considered stable yet.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001285
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001286Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
1287------------------------------------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001288
1289Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by
1290separating them with commas, for example:
1291
1292 echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
1293 echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
1294
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001295Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module,
1296for example:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001297
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001298 modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001299
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001300Enabling debugging output
1301-------------------------
1302
Simon Arlott0f035b82007-10-20 01:30:25 +02001303The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001304enable various classes of debugging output, for example:
1305
1306 modprobe ibm_acpi debug=0xffff
1307
1308will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so
1309to enable more than one output class, just add their values.
1310
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe08bc42007-04-21 11:08:32 -03001311 Debug bitmask Description
1312 0x0001 Initialization and probing
1313 0x0002 Removal
1314
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001315There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging
1316information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0dcef772007-04-21 11:08:34 -03001317
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -03001318The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed
1319at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level. The
1320attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above.
1321
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0dcef772007-04-21 11:08:34 -03001322Force loading of module
1323-----------------------
1324
1325If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify
1326the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or
1327not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -03001328
1329
1330Sysfs interface changelog:
1331
13320x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and
1333 device.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh94b08712007-07-18 23:45:32 -030013340x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch
1335 support.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh741553c2007-07-18 23:45:39 -030013360x010000: Hot keys are now handled by default over the input
1337 layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO,
1338 and the driver enables hot key handling by default in
1339 the firmware.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001340
13410x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and
1342 driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad)
1343 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
1344 compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this
1345 new platform device.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -02001346
13470x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1348 support. If you must, use it to know you should not
1349 start an userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
1350 NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
1351 unneeded/undesired in the first place).
13520x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1353 and proper hotkey_mask semanthics (version 8 of the
1354 NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of
1355 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things
1356 to hotkey_mask.