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Lukas Wunner 899596e090 ACPI / property: Support Apple _DSM properties 
While the rest of the world has standardized on _DSD as the way to store
device properties in AML (introduced with ACPI 5.1 in 2014), Apple has
been using a custom _DSM to achieve the same for much longer (ever since
they switched from DeviceTree-based PowerPC to Intel in 2005, verified
with MacOS X 10.4.11).

The theory of operation on macOS is as follows:  AppleACPIPlatform.kext
invokes mergeEFIproperties() and mergeDSMproperties() for each device to
merge properties conveyed by EFI drivers as well as properties stored in
AML into the I/O Kit registry from which they can be retrieved by
drivers.  We've been supporting EFI properties since commit 58c5475aba
("x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties").  The present
commit adds support for _DSM properties, thereby completing our support
for Apple device properties.  The _DSM properties are made available
under the primary fwnode, the EFI properties under the secondary fwnode.
So for devices which possess both property types, they can all be
elegantly accessed with the uniform API in <linux/property.h>.

Until recently we had no need to support _DSM properties, they contained
only uninteresting garbage.  The situation has changed with MacBooks and
MacBook Pros introduced since 2015:  Their keyboard is attached with SPI
instead of USB and the _CRS data which is necessary to initialize the
spi driver only contains valid information if OSPM responds "false" to
_OSI("Darwin").  If OSPM responds "true", _CRS is empty and the spi
driver fails to initialize.  The rationale is very simple, Apple only
cares about macOS and Windows:  On Windows, _CRS contains valid data,
whereas on macOS it is empty.  Instead, macOS gleans the necessary data
from the _DSM properties.

Since Linux deliberately defaults to responding "true" to _OSI("Darwin"),
we need to emulate macOS' behaviour by initializing the spi driver with
data returned by the _DSM.

An out-of-tree driver for the SPI keyboard exists which currently binds
to the ACPI device, invokes the _DSM, parses the returned package and
instantiates an SPI device with the data gleaned from the _DSM:
https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/commit/9a416d699ef4
https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/commit/0c34936ed9a1

By adding support for Apple's _DSM properties in generic ACPI code, the
out-of-tree driver will be able to register as a regular SPI driver,
significantly reducing its amount of code and improving its chances to
be mainlined.

The SPI keyboard will not be the only user of this commit:  E.g. on the
MacBook8,1, the UART-attached Bluetooth device likewise returns empty
_CRS data if OSPM returns "true" to _OSI("Darwin").

The _DSM returns a Package whose format unfortunately deviates slightly
from the _DSD spec:  The properties are marshalled up in a single Package
as alternating key/value elements, unlike _DSD which stores them as a
Package of 2-element Packages.  The present commit therefore converts
the Package to _DSD format and the ACPI core can then treat the data as
if Apple would follow the standard.

Well, except for one small annoyance:  The properties returned by the
_DSM only ever have one of two types, Integer or Buffer.  The former is
retrievable as usual with device_property_read_u64(), but the latter is
not part of the _DSD spec and it is not possible to retrieve Buffer
properties with the device_property_read_*() functions due to the type
checking performed in drivers/acpi/property.c.  It is however possible
to retrieve them with acpi_dev_get_property().  Apple is using the
Buffer type somewhat sloppily to store null-terminated strings but also
integers.  The real data type is not distinguishable by the ACPI core
and the onus is on the caller to use the contents of the Buffer in an
appropriate way.

In case Apple moves to _DSD in the future, this commit first checks for
_DSD and falls back to _DSM only if _DSD is not found.

Tested-by: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
 		2017-08-03 23:26:22 +02:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-28 12:31:49 -07:00
arch treewide: Consolidate Apple DMI checks 2017-08-03 23:26:22 +02:00
block blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
drivers ACPI / property: Support Apple _DSM properties 2017-08-03 23:26:22 +02:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs More NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-28 14:44:56 -07:00
include treewide: Consolidate Apple DMI checks 2017-08-03 23:26:22 +02:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-30 11:54:08 -07:00
lib uuid: fix incorrect uuid_equal conversion in test_uuid_test 2017-07-21 09:38:30 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc3 2017-07-27 10:44:28 -07:00
tools tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: make pid available for uevents without debugfs 2017-07-26 18:57:44 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Properly alphabetize MAINTAINERS file 2017-07-23 16:06:21 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc3 2017-07-30 12:40:36 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.