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

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Message-ID: <9f03a5e9-405e-4f14-bb1c-d9ac9b6d920a@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:43:04 +0100
From: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
To: Werner Sembach <wse@...edocomputers.com>, 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 14:42 schrieb Werner Sembach:

>
> 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

Fine with me.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

>> 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(-)
>>>