[PATCH 00/10] Add support for Apple Silicon DockChannel internal keyboards
Michael Reeves via B4 Relay <[email protected]>
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This series introduces support for the internal keyboards on Apple Silicon M2 and M3 MacBook models. On these platforms, built-in input devices are managed by a dedicated coprocessor running an RTKit-based operating system. Communication between this coprocessor and the main processor is carried out over a low-latency hardware byte FIFO interface called DockChannel. To support this input path, the series introduces a few new components: - An apple-dockchannel mailbox driver to handle the low-level byte-stream FIFO. - A DockChannel HID transport driver (apple-hid) that boots the coprocessor using the RTKit framework and encapsulates the HID protocol over the mailbox. - Minor additions to the apple-rtkit and hid-apple drivers to support the TraceKit endpoint and integrate the keyboards into the existing input-quirks framework. - Devicetree bindings and DTS updates to describe the nodes on M2 and M3 laptops. The transport driver is based on an original out-of-tree implementation by Hector Martin, but it has been significantly rewritten for upstream inclusion to use the standard Linux mailbox framework and align better with upstream HID design patterns and reduce reliance on hacks. While the coprocessor manages both the keyboard and the trackpad, this series only enables keyboard support. The keyboard can be initialised without loading external firmware, whereas the trackpad requires firmware. Trackpad support will be submitted in a subsequent series once these base transport layers are established. Tested on: MacBook Air M3 (J613). Signed-off-by: Michael Reeves <[email protected]> --- Michael Reeves (9): dt-bindings: mailbox: Add Apple t8122 ASC mailbox dt-bindings: mailbox: apple: Add DockChannel mailbox dt-bindings: iommu: apple,dart: Add t8122 compatible dt-bindings: input: apple: Add DockChannel HID transport mailbox: apple: Add DockChannel FIFO controller HID: apple: Add support for DockChannel HID keyboards HID: apple: Add DockChannel HID transport driver arm64: dts: apple: Add MTP DockChannel HID nodes arm64: dts: apple: Enable DockChannel HID on M2 and M3 laptops Sasha Finkelstein (1): soc: apple: rtkit: Add tracekit endpoint .../bindings/input/apple,dockchannel-hid.yaml | 91 ++ .../devicetree/bindings/iommu/apple,dart.yaml | 4 +- .../bindings/mailbox/apple,dockchannel.yaml | 75 ++ .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/apple,mailbox.yaml | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 5 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t602x-die0.dtsi | 46 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t602x-j414-j416.dtsi | 25 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8112-j413.dts | 20 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8112-j415.dts | 20 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8112-j493.dts | 22 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8112.dtsi | 46 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8122-j504.dts | 22 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8122-j613.dts | 23 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8122-j615.dts | 23 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8122.dtsi | 47 + drivers/hid/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/hid/Makefile | 2 + drivers/hid/dockchannel/Kconfig | 15 + drivers/hid/dockchannel/Makefile | 3 + drivers/hid/dockchannel/apple-hid.c | 1130 ++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/hid/hid-apple.c | 139 ++- drivers/mailbox/Kconfig | 12 + drivers/mailbox/Makefile | 2 + drivers/mailbox/apple-dockchannel.c | 380 +++++++ drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c | 2 + include/linux/hid.h | 1 + include/linux/mailbox/apple-dockchannel.h | 29 + 27 files changed, 2139 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) --- base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482 change-id: 20260629-apple-mtp-keyboard-final-91cb5a6ff4fc Best regards, -- Michael Reeves <[email protected]>