[ltp] Request: EC dump information for A3x/X3x/T3x Thinkpads

[Shem Multinymous]

On 8/28/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I was very surprised to find that this worked on my T20,
>
> > EC 0xc0: *7e *2b *cc *9a  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00
>
> Uh oh...  there goes the chance of easily expanding ibm-acpi, and also my
> praise for IBM's supposedly good handling of the EC register space
> allocation.  Heh.

Yeah. Good thinking! This means
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code/ibm_acpi-extra-thermal.patch needs
to do something about old models.

> Probably the same DMI match used by thinkpad_ec to locate a working
> latest-version Thinkpad EC firmware will do.  So far, all models reported to
> behave in the C0-C7 range are an OK match to the firmware DMI string.

Sounds good.

  Shem