[coreboot] rfkill equivalent on the X60 - first partial success

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 03.12.2014 23:32, Charles Devereaux wrote:
> Hello
> 
> As explained before, thinkpad-acpi can't control the non-wifi radio like
> bluetooth or wwan, because it expects some ACPI entries that aren't
> there - so there is no rfkill control for these, even if some
> non-working entries are shown with 'rfkill list'
> 
You have a hardware button to do an rfkill. I don't see why software
should mess more with this.
> To emulate rfkill functionality, just write directly to the ec, for ex
> to turn on wwan and wifi:
> ./ec_access -w 0x3a -v 0x60
> 
Usecase?
> It works great for bluetooth, basically "physically unplugging" the
> device so that if you have uhci_hcd as a module, an rmmod/modprobe will
> no longer show the device on lsusb.
> 
RCBA registers can disable any USB ports. But again: usecase?


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