[APPLIED] [PATCH] [Maverick] Add support for the ATIF ACPI method to the radeon driver

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Thu Jun 24 22:56:55 UTC 2010


Applied to Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:13 +0200, Alberto Milone wrote: 
> On 24 June 2010 17:02, Alberto Milone <alberto.milone at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks to the help of Alex Deucher and Matthew Garrett, I've added
> > support for calling the ATIF ACPI method to the radeon driver. This
> > makes the video switch hotkey work properly, as we get an ACPI event
> > when the key is pressed.
> >
> > Note: I guess it depends on the bios I'm working with, but I also need
> > to pass acpi_osi=\"!Windows 2009\" on boot in order to get the ACPI
> > event.
> >
> > The patch has been approved by upstream and should be included in
> > 2.6.36. Please consider adopting my patch in Maverick's kernel.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to attach the patch.
> 
> 








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