Emulator for DELL0501 UART attached backlight controller -------------------------------------------------------- Dell All In One (AIO) models released after 2017 use a backlight controller board connected to an UART. In DSDT this uart port will be defined as: Name (_HID, "DELL0501") Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0501") With the DELL0501 indicating that we are dealing with an UART with the backlight controller board attached. This small emulator allows testing the drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c driver without access to an actual Dell All In One. This requires: 1. A (desktop) PC with a 16550 UART on the motherboard and a standard DB9 connector connected to this UART. 2. A DB9 NULL modem cable. 3. A second DB9 serial port, this can e.g. be a USB to serial converter with a DB9 connector plugged into the same desktop PC. 4. A DSDT overlay for the desktop PC replacing the _HID of the 16550 UART ACPI Device() with "DELL0501" and adding a _CID of "PNP0501", see DSDT.patch for an example of the necessary DSDT changes. With everything setup and the NULL modem cable connected between the 2 serial ports run: ./dell-uart-backlight-emulator For example when using an USB to serial converter for the second port: ./dell-uart-backlight-emulator /dev/ttyUSB0 And then (re)load the dell-uart-backlight driver: sudo rmmod dell-uart-backlight; sudo modprobe dell-uart-backlight dyndbg After this check "dmesg" to see if the driver correctly received the firmware version string from the emulator. If this works there should be a /sys/class/backlight/dell_uart_backlight/ directory now and writes to the brightness or bl_power files should be reflected by matching output from the emulator.