[PATCH v2 4/8][SRU][N] ACPI: video: Add Dell UART backlight controller detection
AceLan Kao
acelan.kao at canonical.com
Thu Oct 23 02:53:22 UTC 2025
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083800
Dell All In One (AIO) models released after 2017 use a backlight
controller board connected to an UART.
In DSDT this uart port will be defined as:
Name (_HID, "DELL0501")
Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0501")
Commit 484bae9e4d6a ("platform/x86: Add new Dell UART backlight driver")
has added support for this, but I neglected to tie this into
acpi_video_get_backlight_type().
Now the first AIO has turned up which has not only the DSDT bits for this,
but also an actual controller attached to the UART, yet it is not using
this controller for backlight control.
Add support to acpi_video_get_backlight_type() for a new dell_uart
backlight type. So that the existing infra to override the backlight
control method on the commandline or with DMI quirks can be used.
Fixes: 484bae9e4d6a ("platform/x86: Add new Dell UART backlight driver")
Cc: All applicable <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy at kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240814190159.15650-2-hdegoede@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit cd8e468efb4fb2742e06328a75b282c35c1abf8d)
Signed-off-by: Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan) <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
---
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 7 +++++++
include/acpi/video.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
index d29ddec3eecc2..86bb22d0a8057 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ static void acpi_video_parse_cmdline(void)
acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_nvidia_wmi_ec;
if (!strcmp("apple_gmux", acpi_video_backlight_string))
acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_apple_gmux;
+ if (!strcmp("dell_uart", acpi_video_backlight_string))
+ acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_dell_uart;
if (!strcmp("none", acpi_video_backlight_string))
acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_none;
}
@@ -950,6 +952,7 @@ enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native, bool *auto
static DEFINE_MUTEX(init_mutex);
static bool nvidia_wmi_ec_present;
static bool apple_gmux_present;
+ static bool dell_uart_present;
static bool native_available;
static bool init_done;
static long video_caps;
@@ -964,6 +967,7 @@ enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native, bool *auto
&video_caps, NULL);
nvidia_wmi_ec_present = nvidia_wmi_ec_supported();
apple_gmux_present = apple_gmux_detect(NULL, NULL);
+ dell_uart_present = acpi_dev_present("DELL0501", NULL, -1);
init_done = true;
}
if (native)
@@ -994,6 +998,9 @@ enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native, bool *auto
if (apple_gmux_present)
return acpi_backlight_apple_gmux;
+ if (dell_uart_present)
+ return acpi_backlight_dell_uart;
+
/* Use ACPI video if available, except when native should be preferred. */
if ((video_caps & ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT) &&
!(native_available && prefer_native_over_acpi_video()))
diff --git a/include/acpi/video.h b/include/acpi/video.h
index 3d538d4178abb..044c463138df8 100644
--- a/include/acpi/video.h
+++ b/include/acpi/video.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ enum acpi_backlight_type {
acpi_backlight_native,
acpi_backlight_nvidia_wmi_ec,
acpi_backlight_apple_gmux,
+ acpi_backlight_dell_uart,
};
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO)
--
2.43.0
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