[PATCH v2 0/8][SRU][N] Dell AIO backlight is not working, dell_uart_backlight module is missing
AceLan Kao
acelan.kao at canonical.com
Thu Oct 23 02:53:18 UTC 2025
From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083800
[Impact]
Dell AIO backlight need dell_uart_backlight module, but
CONFIG_DELL_UART_BACKLIGHT is not enabled on 6.8.
[Fix]
Enable the option in the kernel config, and also replace the old sauce
driver with the upstream one.
[Test Case]
1. Boot Dell AIO machine to desktop
2. The backlight should be controlled through hotkey and/or GUI
[Where problems could occur]
This series of patches replace the sauce driver with the upstream one.
The functionality is the same.
v2. add all quirks for dell aio
5c7bb62cb8f5 ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 7760 AIO
ac78288fe062 ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 5480 AIO
Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan) (4):
UBUNTU: SAUCE: Removed sauce dell-uart-backlight driver
Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: ACPI: video: Dell AIO UART backlight detection"
UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell_uart_backlight: size_t -> ssize_t
UBUNTU: [Config] enable CONFIG_DELL_UART_BACKLIGHT
Hans de Goede (4):
platform/x86: Add new Dell UART backlight driver
ACPI: video: Add Dell UART backlight controller detection
ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 7760 AIO
ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 5480 AIO
debian.master/config/annotations | 2 +-
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 34 +-
drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig | 15 +
.../platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c | 730 ++++++++----------
.../platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.h | 41 -
include/acpi/video.h | 1 +
6 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 475 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.h
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2.43.0
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