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| author | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> | 2009-06-18 00:40:17 -0300 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-06-18 01:30:57 -0400 |
| commit | d73772474f6ebbacbe820c31c0fa1cffa7160246 (patch) | |
| tree | 7564212618d43910de01a818c0cdef5759ad12a9 /Documentation/laptops | |
| parent | d7880f10c5d42ba182a97c1fd41d41d0b8837097 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d73772474f6ebbacbe820c31c0fa1cffa7160246.tar.gz lwn-d73772474f6ebbacbe820c31c0fa1cffa7160246.zip | |
thinkpad-acpi: support the second fan on the X61
Support reading the tachometer of the auxiliary fan of a X60/X61.
It was found out by sheer luck, that bit 0 of EC register 0x31
(formely HBRV) selects which fan is active for tachometer readings
through EC 0x84/0x085: 0 for fan1, 1 for fan2.
Many thanks to Christoph Kl??nter, to Whoopie, and to weasel, who
helped confirm that behaviour.
Fan control through EC HFSP applies to both fans equally, regardless
of the state of bit 0 of EC 0x31. That matches the way the DSDT uses
HFSP.
In order to better support the secondary fan, export a second
tachometer over hwmon, and add defensive measures to make sure we are
reading the correct tachometer.
Support for the second fan is whitelist-based, as I have not found
anything obvious to look for in the DSDT to detect the presence of
the second fan.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/laptops')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index f2ff638cce8d..0d5e91379ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1, - pwm1_enable + pwm1_enable, fan2_input sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for @@ -1282,6 +1282,9 @@ from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus value on other models. +Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan. This fan cannot be +controlled separately, it shares the main fan control. + Fan levels: Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0 @@ -1412,6 +1415,11 @@ hwmon device attribute fan1_input: which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older ThinkPads. +hwmon device attribute fan2_input: + Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan. + Available only on some ThinkPads. If the secondary fan is + not installed, will always read 0. + hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog: Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog. |