Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:53:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, akpm@osdl.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display
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Hi!

> 	Matthew has shown up on the libsmbios-devel mailing list. I sent
> all the
> info needed to do a test of Dell LCD brightness control. The main thing
> left
> would be to make one utility out of the current separate, unsupported,
> test 
> utils. 
> 
> 	As for fixing i8k, I don't have the slightest clue where to
> begin. You 
> either have to split initialization with userspace to parse and send in
> the 
> correct io/magic ports to do SMI, or you have to put Dell-specific SMI
> token 
> parsing in the kernel.

What is wrong with Dell-specific SMI parsing in kernel? Is it _that_
much code?

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