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| author | Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> | 2021-02-12 12:54:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> | 2021-03-06 10:23:26 +0100 |
| commit | fc622b3d36e6d91330fb21506b9ad1e3206a4dde (patch) | |
| tree | 3a3a89bada329dba9d8c48f9b328dfeab8a67979 /drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig | |
| parent | a38fd8748464831584a19438cbb3082b5a2dab15 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fc622b3d36e6d91330fb21506b9ad1e3206a4dde.tar.bz2 | |
platform/surface: Set up Surface Aggregator device registry
The Surface System Aggregator Module (SSAM) subsystem provides various
functionalities, which are separated by spreading them across multiple
devices and corresponding drivers. Parts of that functionality / some of
those devices, however, can (as far as we currently know) not be
auto-detected by conventional means. While older (specifically 5th- and
6th-)generation models do advertise most of their functionality via
standard platform devices in ACPI, newer generations do not.
As we are currently also not aware of any feasible way to query said
functionalities dynamically, this poses a problem. There is, however, a
device in ACPI that seems to be used by Windows for identifying
different Surface models: The Windows Surface Integration Device (WSID).
This device seems to have a HID corresponding to the overall set of
functionalities SSAM provides for the associated model.
This commit introduces a registry providing non-detectable device
information via software nodes. In addition, a SSAM platform hub driver
is introduced, which takes care of creating and managing the SSAM
devices specified in this registry. This approach allows for a
hierarchical setup akin to ACPI and is easily extendable, e.g. via
firmware node properties.
Note that this commit only provides the basis for the platform hub and
registry, and does not add any content to it. The registry will be
expanded in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210212115439.1525216-2-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig index 0847b2dc97bf..179b8c93d7fd 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig @@ -77,6 +77,33 @@ config SURFACE_AGGREGATOR_CDEV The provided interface is intended for debugging and development only, and should not be used otherwise. +config SURFACE_AGGREGATOR_REGISTRY + tristate "Surface System Aggregator Module Device Registry" + depends on SURFACE_AGGREGATOR + depends on SURFACE_AGGREGATOR_BUS + help + Device-registry and device-hubs for Surface System Aggregator Module + (SSAM) devices. + + Provides a module and driver which act as a device-registry for SSAM + client devices that cannot be detected automatically, e.g. via ACPI. + Such devices are instead provided via this registry and attached via + device hubs, also provided in this module. + + Devices provided via this registry are: + - Platform profile (performance-/cooling-mode) device (5th- and later + generations). + - Battery/AC devices (7th-generation). + - HID input devices (7th-generation). + + Select M (recommended) or Y here if you want support for the above + mentioned devices on the corresponding Surface models. Without this + module, the respective devices will not be instantiated and thus any + functionality provided by them will be missing, even when drivers for + these devices are present. In other words, this module only provides + the respective client devices. Drivers for these devices still need to + be selected via the other options. + config SURFACE_GPE tristate "Surface GPE/Lid Support Driver" depends on DMI |