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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-06 10:35:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-06 10:35:06 -0700
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parentMerge tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm (diff)
parentMerge branches 'acpi-cppc', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-drivers' (diff)
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Merge tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional ACPI updates. These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200326 upstream revision, fix an ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86, update Intel Tiger Lake device IDs in some places, add a new ACPI backlight blacklist entry, update the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch documentation and clean up a CPPC library routine. Specifics: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200326 including: * Fix for a typo in a comment field (Bob Moore) * acpiExec namespace init file fixes (Bob Moore) * Addition of NHLT to the known tables list (Cezary Rojewski) * Conversion of PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC (Erik Kaneda) * acpiexec cleanup (Erik Kaneda) * WSMT-related typo fix (Erik Kaneda) * sprintf() utility function fix (John Levon) * IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing implementation (Michał Żygowski) * IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name fix (Michał Żygowski) - Fix ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86 (Qian Cai) - Fix Intel Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs in several places (Gayatri Kammela) - Add ACPI backlight blacklist entry for Acer Aspire 5783z (Hans de Goede) - Fix documentation of the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch (Randy Dunlap) - Clean up the acpi_get_psd_map() CPPC library routine (Liguang Zhang)" * tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: x86: ACPI: fix CPU hotplug deadlock thermal: int340x_thermal: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs platform/x86: intel-hid: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device ID ACPI: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs ACPI: video: Use native backlight on Acer Aspire 5783z ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter options ACPICA: Update version 20200326 ACPICA: Fixes for acpiExec namespace init file ACPICA: Add NHLT table signature ACPICA: WSMT: Fix typo, no functional change ACPICA: utilities: fix sprintf() ACPICA: acpiexec: remove redeclaration of acpi_gbl_db_opt_no_region_support ACPICA: Change PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC ACPICA: Fix IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name ACPICA: Implement IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing ACPICA: Fix a typo in a comment field ACPI: CPPC: clean up acpi_get_psd_map()
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index c78b463f5f79..2d31d811a52d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@
default: 0
acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
- acpi_backlight=vendor
- acpi_backlight=video
- If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
+ { vendor | video | native | none }
+ If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
of the ACPI video.ko driver.
+ If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
+ If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
+ If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the