PERFORCE change 123168 for review

Rui Paulo rpaulo at fnop.net
Mon Jul 9 20:47:07 UTC 2007


Rui Paulo wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>> Rui Paulo wrote:
>>> Rui Paulo wrote:
>>>> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=123168
>>>>
>>>> Change 123168 by rpaulo at rpaulo_epsilon on 2007/07/09 02:12:16
>>>>
>>>>     Add support for keyboard backlight control (found on MacBook
>>>>     Pros).     dev.asmc.N.light.{left,right} sysctl tree is now created.
>>>>     Setting a value on the "right" or "left" nodes sets the
>>>>     keyboard backlight level. Reading those sysctl nodes, gives
>>>>     the each sensor raw 
>>> I did not test this as I don't own a MacBook Pro, but it should work.
>>> If anyone has a MacBook Pro and is willing to test, it would be much
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>
>> I have one of the newer MacBook Pros - with the LED backlight, etc. I've
>> been thinking of using bootcamp to also run FreeBSD on this laptop.
>>
>> Do you have a wiki, or some info on how to best integrate your P4 tree
>> on an -CURRENT system?
> 
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook
> 
> To grab my p4 branch just setup your p4 view so that
> //depot/projects/soc2007/rpaulo-macbook/... matches to something locally.
> 
> I'm interested in knowing what works and what doesn't on the new MBPs.

Also, the new drivers that you might want include on your kernel config
are: msrtemp, backlight (doesn't work on MBPs) and asmc.

-- 
Rui Paulo


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