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• Mediakeys inc driver#

Power-profiles-dameon landed in a number of distributions, sometimes enabled by default, sometimes not enabled by default (sigh, the less said about that the better), which fortunately meant that we had some early feedback available. This should be soon transformed into a generic proximity sensor, which will mean I get to work some more on iio-sensor-proxy.

Mediakeys inc driver#

The next item to make more generic is Lenovo's "lap detection" which still relies on a custom driver interface. This interface is now the one that power-profiles-daemon will integrate with, and means that it also supports a number of Microsoft Surface, HP, Lenovo's own Ideapad laptops, and maybe Razer laptops soon. With the initial kernel support written for (select) Lenovo laptops, Hans implemented a more generic interface called platform_profile. For that, I worked with Mark Pearson from Lenovo, who wrote the initial kernel support for the feature and served as our link to the Lenovo firmware team, and Hans de Goede, who worked on making the kernel interfaces more generic.

The project was born out of the need to make a firmware feature available to end-users for a number of lines of Lenovo laptops for them to be fully usable on Fedora.

Note that I would still recommend you read the up-to-date project README if you have questions about why this project was necessary, and why a new project was started rather than building on an existing one. Just about a year after the original announcement, I think it's time to see the progress on power-profiles-daemon.