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Subject[PATCH] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros
Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros don't appear to handle backlight control 
through the graphics card registers or ACPI, but instead trigger changes
via SMI calls. This driver registers a generic backlight device that
lets existing userspace deal with it. Code derived from Julien Blache's
Pommed application.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>

---

Lennart - as far as I could tell from your description, the DMI
autoloading code for this should be correct. However, it's not working
for me on F9. Have I missed something, or does it just not work there?

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
index dcd8073..56f4572 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
@@ -112,3 +112,11 @@ config BACKLIGHT_CARILLO_RANCH
help
If you have a Intel LE80578 (Carillo Ranch) say Y to enable the
backlight driver.
+
+config BACKLIGHT_MBP_NVIDIA
+ tristate "Macbook Pro Nvidia Backlight Driver"
+ depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE && X86
+ default n
+ help
+ If you have an Apple Macbook Pro with Nvidia graphics hardware say Y
+ to enable a driver for its backlight
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/Makefile b/drivers/video/backlight/Makefile
index 33f6c7c..5b91515 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/Makefile
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LOCOMO) += locomolcd.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_OMAP1) += omap1_bl.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_PROGEAR) += progear_bl.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CARILLO_RANCH) += cr_bllcd.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_MBP_NVIDIA) += mbp_nvidia_bl.o
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c622d22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+/*
+ * Backlight Driver for Nvidia 8600 in Macbook Pro
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) Red Hat <mjg@redhat.com>
+ * Based on code from Pommed:
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Nicolas Boichat <nicolas @boichat.ch>
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro @linuxmail.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This driver triggers SMIs which cause the firmware to change the
+ * backlight brightness. This is icky in many ways, but it's impractical to
+ * get at the firmware code in order to figure out what it's actually doing.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/backlight.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
+#include <linux/io.h>
+
+struct backlight_device *mbp_backlight_device;
+
+static struct dmi_system_id __initdata mbp_device_table[] = {
+ {
+ .ident = "3,1",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBookPro3,1"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .ident = "3,2",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBookPro3,2"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .ident = "4,1",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBookPro4,1"),
+ },
+ },
+ { }
+};
+
+static int mbp_send_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
+{
+ int intensity = bd->props.brightness;
+
+ outb(0x04 | (intensity << 4), 0xb3);
+ outb(0xbf, 0xb2);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int mbp_get_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
+{
+ outb(0x03, 0xb3);
+ outb(0xbf, 0xb2);
+ return inb(0xb3) >> 4;
+}
+
+static struct backlight_ops mbp_ops = {
+ .get_brightness = mbp_get_intensity,
+ .update_status = mbp_send_intensity,
+};
+
+static int __init mbp_init(void)
+{
+ if (!dmi_check_system(mbp_device_table))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ if (!request_region(0xb2, 2, "Macbook Pro backlight"))
+ return -ENXIO;
+
+ mbp_backlight_device = backlight_device_register("mbp_backlight",
+ NULL, NULL,
+ &mbp_ops);
+ if (IS_ERR(mbp_backlight_device))
+ return PTR_ERR(mbp_backlight_device);
+
+ mbp_backlight_device->props.max_brightness = 15;
+ mbp_backlight_device->props.brightness =
+ mbp_get_intensity(mbp_backlight_device);
+ backlight_update_status(mbp_backlight_device);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit mbp_exit(void)
+{
+ backlight_device_unregister(mbp_backlight_device);
+
+ release_region(0xb2, 2);
+}
+
+module_init(mbp_init);
+module_exit(mbp_exit);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Nvidia-based Macbook Pro Backlight Driver");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnApple Inc.:pnMacBookPro3,1:*");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnApple Inc.:pnMacBookPro3,2:*");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnApple Inc.:pnMacBookPro4,1:*");
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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