PERFORCE change 123168 for review

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 11 12:13:51 UTC 2007


Rui Paulo wrote:
> 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.
> 


Ok - also, is SMP supposed to work?  I can't get the system to boot a 
GENERIC kernel (hangs after an ACPI message, early in the boot process).

Eric



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