[tlinux-users:08110] Re: [Omnibook-devel] New release of omnibook module soon: testing welcome

Azael Avalos a écrit :
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> Whenever this new release is out I will need to update KToshiba to 
> give support for the new features (Bluetooth, wireless, etc.)
Thanks a lot, I will update doc/README to include  KToshiba in listed 
frontends.
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> And as side note, is there a way of knowing wich ectype they are using?
> Right now KToshiba guesses the ectype by the model name, which is not 
> reliable at all in some models.
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There are two kinds of ectypes:
*12 and 13 which support some form of probing, that is, they try to 
detect if the hardware interface
they are trying to talk to is here or not and refuse to initialize if 
not. The symptom at this point
is that most files in /proc/omnibook are missing if you are forcing a 
wrong ectype.
*All others which simply read/write some discovered ACPI embedded 
controller addresses and
send some command to the keyboard controller, as these actions usually 
don't fail implement
probing (other than "err 0°C is an unlikely value for a CPU 
temperature") is impossible

Thus we rely mainly on DMI string matching and this is a maintenance 
nightmare.
Probing might be possible for ectype 12, 13 and eventually for future 
ectypes implemented
using Toshiba technical documentation but others are broken by design.

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Mathieu Bérard