Documentation: laptops: Add documentation for uniwill laptops

Add documentation for admins regarding Uniwill laptops. This should
help them to setup the uniwill-laptop driver, which sadly cannot be
loaded automatically.

Reported-by: cyear <chumuzero@gmail.com>
Closes: https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors/issues/508
Closes: https://github.com/Wer-Wolf/uniwill-laptop/issues/3
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251102172942.17879-3-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
pull/1354/merge
Armin Wolf 2025-11-02 18:29:42 +01:00 committed by Ilpo Järvinen
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@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ Laptop Drivers
sonypi
thinkpad-acpi
toshiba_haps
uniwill-laptop

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
Uniwill laptop extra features
=============================
On laptops manufactured by Uniwill (either directly or as ODM), the ``uniwill-laptop`` driver
handles various platform-specific features.
Module Loading
--------------
The ``uniwill-laptop`` driver relies on a DMI table to automatically load on supported devices.
When using the ``force`` module parameter, this DMI check will be omitted, allowing the driver
to be loaded on unsupported devices for testing purposes.
Hotkeys
-------
Usually the FN keys work without a special driver. However as soon as the ``uniwill-laptop`` driver
is loaded, the FN keys need to be handled manually. This is done automatically by the driver itself.
Keyboard settings
-----------------
The ``uniwill-laptop`` driver allows the user to enable/disable:
- the FN and super key lock functionality of the integrated keyboard
- the touchpad toggle functionality of the integrated touchpad
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uniwill-laptop for details.
Hwmon interface
---------------
The ``uniwill-laptop`` driver supports reading of the CPU and GPU temperature and supports up to
two fans. Userspace applications can access sensor readings over the hwmon sysfs interface.
Platform profile
----------------
Support for changing the platform performance mode is currently not implemented.
Battery Charging Control
------------------------
The ``uniwill-laptop`` driver supports controlling the battery charge limit. This happens over
the standard ``charge_control_end_threshold`` power supply sysfs attribute. All values
between 1 and 100 percent are supported.
Additionally the driver signals the presence of battery charging issues through the standard
``health`` power supply sysfs attribute.
Lightbar
--------
The ``uniwill-laptop`` driver exposes the lightbar found on some models as a standard multicolor
LED class device. The default name of this LED class device is ``uniwill:multicolor:status``.
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uniwill-laptop for details on how to control the various
animation modes of the lightbar.

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@ -26381,6 +26381,7 @@ M: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uniwill-laptop
F: Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/uniwill-laptop.rst
F: Documentation/wmi/devices/uniwill-laptop.rst
F: drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c
F: drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-wmi.c