Re: kern/50261: Please support newer Toshiba laptop hotkeys

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/50261; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: ryoon%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/50261: Please support newer Toshiba laptop hotkeys
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:49:31 +0200

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 Thank you!
 
 Slightly improved version attached.
  Thomas
 
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 .Dd October 12, 2015
 .Dt VALZ 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm valz
 .Nd Toshiba Programmable I/O controller for Dynabook series
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Cd "valz* at acpi?"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 Toshiba Dynabook series computers provide HCI/SCI I/O controllers
 that handle various interface devices.
 This special I/O controller is accessed by the
 .Dq GHCI
 ACPI method.
 The
 .Nm
 driver provides some support for it.
 .Pp
 The
 .Nm
 driver handles the following hot-keys:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -compact -offset indent -width "Fn+Tab"
 .It Fn+F9
 Toggle internal touchpad and trackpoint.
 .It Fn+Tab
 Toggle LCD backlight.
 .El
 .Pp
 The
 .Nm
 driver has only been tested on the Dynabook R63/PS and some Dynabook
 models from 2013 or later.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr acpi 4 ,
 .Xr vald 4
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
 driver appeared in
 .Nx 8.0 .
 .Sh BUGS
 Not all HCI/SCI functions are implemented.
 
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