Other stuff, and Power Management

[Jordan Crouse]

On 09/12/06 21:14 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 10:18 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> > The firmware does not support SD yet.  It hasn't been a priority...
> 
> No worries, just making sure I'm not being an idiot ;-)
> 
> > The power button should turn off the machine if you hold it in for 4 
> > seconds, just like on a PC.  More complicated instant power management, 
> > like suspend, is not yet implemented.  The power button does generate 
> > keycodes, but the OS infrastructure to handle them is not yet ready for 
> > prime time.
> 
> Sure. I'll see what I can do to help about that.
> 
> > The brightness level is changed by sending commands to the DCON chip via 
> > SMBUS.  The kernel does the talking to SMBUS; OF is not running once the 
> > kernel takes control.
> 
> So can we just use the backlight kernel class? Writing a new value
> didn't seem to be working for me.
 
Uh - we *are* using the backlight kernel class.  As far as I know, its
still working.  I haven't heard any other reports of breakage.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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