linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Start of Upstream Support for TUXEDO NB02 devices

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Message-ID: <1a4d41a9-c3e9-48ad-a47f-661f38a1c443@tuxedocomputers.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:42:09 +0100
From: Werner Sembach <wse@...edocomputers.com>
To: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>, hansg@...nel.org,
 ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Start of Upstream Support for TUXEDO NB02 devices


Am 18.11.25 um 12:31 schrieb Armin Wolf:
> Am 17.11.25 um 14:23 schrieb Werner Sembach:
>
>> With the Uniwill driver from Armin now accepted I want to push the first
>> big addon to it that I worked on in parallel.
>>
>> First this adds all current Tuxedo devices to use at least the input part
>> of the new driver.
>>
>> Second it adds a new feature for cTGP control on Uniwill devices with
>> NVIDIA GPUs and enables that on the TUXEDO devices.
>>
>> I have not yet enabled the other features in this driver for TUXEDO devices
>> as they either don't apply (Uniwill did a line with Intel that behaves a
>> little different to the rest of their ECs and that line is what the features
>> Armin added are based on) or are, as of now, untested.
>>
>> There are plenty more features currently implemented in the out of tree
>> tuxedo-drivers dkms package that I plan to port over one by one, but as
>> always: No ETA given.
>
> Very nice, i think that especially the cTGP control feature will be very 
> popular with users.
> I am also currently working to add fan table (aka "universal fan control"), 
> PL1/PL2 power limit
> and platform profile support to the driver, so you might be able to reuse some 
> of that
> functionality for your devices.
>
> I think that we can merge the first two patches in the near future, but the 
> remaining ones
> dealing with the DMI table and cTGP support need some more work.
After reading through everything i will resend the first 2 patches reordered as 
v2 and work on the cTGP stuff as a separate patchset
> What kind of control does
> your software (Tuxedo control center) need over the cTGP values? I am asking 
> because Intel
> devices have fixed cTGP values for each platform profile. If your software 
> does something
> similar, then maybe we can integrate this into the platform profile mechanism.
>
> Thanks,
> Armin Wolf
>
>>
>> Werner Sembach (6):
>>    platform/x86/uniwill: Add TUXEDO devices
>>    platform/x86/uniwill: Handle more WMI events required for TUXEDO
>>      devices
>>    platform/x86/uniwill: Implement cTGP setting
>>    platform/x86/uniwill: Make uniwill_dmi_table accessible in probe
>>    platform/x86/uniwill: Run callbacks of uniwill_dmi_table
>>    platform/x86/uniwill: Set cTGP support based on EC for TUXEDO IBP Gen7
>>      MK1
>>
>>   drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c | 546 ++++++++++++++++++--
>>   drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-wmi.h  |   2 +
>>   2 files changed, 502 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
>>