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The Surface ACPI Notify (SAN) device provides an ACPI interface to the Surface Aggregator EC, specifically the Surface Serial Hub interface. This interface allows EC requests to be made from ACPI code and can convert a subset of EC events back to ACPI notifications. Specifically, this interface provides a GenericSerialBus operation region ACPI code can execute a request by writing the request command data and payload to this operation region and reading back the corresponding response via a write-then-read operation. Furthermore, this interface provides a _DSM method to be called when certain events from the EC have been received, essentially turning them into ACPI notifications. The driver provided in this commit essentially takes care of translating the request data written to the operation region, executing the request, waiting for it to finish, and finally writing and translating back the response (if the request has one). Furthermore, this driver takes care of enabling the events handled via ACPI _DSM calls. Lastly, this driver also exposes an interface providing discrete GPU (dGPU) power-on notifications on the Surface Book 2, which are also received via the operation region interface (but not handled by the SAN driver directly), making them accessible to other drivers (such as a dGPU hot-plug driver that may be added later on). On 5th and 6th generation Surface devices (Surface Pro 5/2017, Pro 6, Book 2, Laptop 1 and 2), the SAN interface provides full battery and thermal subsystem access, as well as other EC based functionality. On those models, battery and thermal sensor devices are implemented as standard ACPI devices of that type, however, forward ACPI calls to the corresponding Surface Aggregator EC request via the SAN interface and receive corresponding notifications (e.g. battery information change) from it. This interface is therefore required to provide said functionality on those devices. Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221183959.1186143-10-luzmaximilian@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.