From: "Mark Pearson" <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
To: "Armin Wolf" <W_Armin@gmx.de>, "John Martens" <johnfanv2@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Derek J . Clark" <derekjohn.clark@gmail.com>,
"Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Luke D . Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>,
nijs1@lenovo.com, pgriffais@valvesoftware.com,
"platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org"
<platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
shaohz1@lenovo.com, "Mario Limonciello" <superm1@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] platform/x86: Add Lenovo Legion WMI Drivers
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:06:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f941534d-4ebb-46b5-88af-0fdfbffa1057@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb165321-6a52-4464-bb58-11d8f9ff2008@gmx.de>
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024, at 6:19 PM, Armin Wolf wrote:
> Am 26.12.24 um 01:18 schrieb John Martens:
>
<snip>
>
>> - When trying to find out what access method to choose one cannot rely
>> on the ACPI/WMI interface. From disassembling the ACPI, one can see
>> that sometimes/often even if the function is not implemented it
>> will return without error. Moreover, there are some WMI methods
>> with name "*IsSupported" (or similar) but they often do not tell
>> the truth.
>
> Oh no.
>
> I hope that we just misinterpret the result of those methods. Otherwise
> this would indeed be
> very frustrating. Maybe some help from Lenovo can solve this issue.
>
Can someone (John?) send me the details off email list and I'll see if the Legion team can help.
(this comes with a caveat that the Legion platforms are not part of the official Linux program yet, so no promises or guarantees)
>
>> - Using just one WMI interface is simple — my grandmother could do it.
You have an awesome grandmother :D
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-27 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-17 23:06 Derek J. Clark
2024-12-17 23:06 ` [PATCH 1/1] platform/x86: Add lenovo-legion-wmi drivers Derek J. Clark
2024-12-18 2:39 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-12-18 3:36 ` Derek J. Clark
2024-12-22 22:55 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-23 15:47 ` Derek John Clark
2024-12-23 16:50 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-25 5:25 ` Cody T.-H. Chiu
2024-12-25 8:34 ` Derek J. Clark
2024-12-25 21:11 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-26 7:17 ` Derek J. Clark
2024-12-27 17:21 ` Mark Pearson
2024-12-30 7:51 ` Cody T.-H. Chiu
2024-12-27 18:48 ` [PATCH 0/1] platform/x86: Add Lenovo Legion WMI Drivers Antheas Kapenekakis
2024-12-27 23:22 ` Derek John Clark
2024-12-28 1:09 ` Antheas Kapenekakis
2024-12-28 3:30 ` Derek John Clark
2024-12-28 11:50 ` Antheas Kapenekakis
2024-12-29 20:45 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-29 22:41 ` Antheas Kapenekakis
2024-12-30 13:41 ` Antheas Kapenekakis
2024-12-29 20:28 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-22 8:42 ` John Martens
[not found] ` <CAFqHKT==PiLb_VuFPHJzgfrprukGGig+iUzcih+3TJ1VYt94Dw@mail.gmail.com>
2024-12-22 20:34 ` Derek John Clark
2024-12-22 23:05 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-26 0:18 ` John Martens
2024-12-26 23:19 ` Armin Wolf
2024-12-27 17:06 ` Mark Pearson [this message]
2024-12-27 23:18 ` Derek John Clark
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