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authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>2010-07-16 13:11:37 +0200
committerMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>2010-08-03 15:49:07 +0200
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Documentation: Add new /sys/kernel/debug/ec/* files to ABI
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> CC: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> CC: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org CC: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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+What: /sys/kernel/debug/ec/*/{gpe,use_global_lock,io}
+Date: July 2010
+Contact: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
+Description:
+
+General information like which GPE is assigned to the EC and whether
+the global lock should get used.
+Knowing the EC GPE one can watch the amount of HW events related to
+the EC here (XY -> GPE number from /sys/kernel/debug/ec/*/gpe):
+/sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpeXY
+
+The io file is binary and a userspace tool located here:
+ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec/
+should get used to read out the 256 Embedded Controller registers
+or writing to them.
+
+CAUTION: Do not write to the Embedded Controller if you don't know
+what you are doing! Rebooting afterwards also is a good idea.
+This can influence the way your machine is cooled and fans may
+not get switched on again after you did a wrong write.