[PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Add driver for CF-33 A1/A2 buttons (TBTN)
From: Hilgad Montelo
Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 22:58:15 EST
On the Panasonic Toughbook CF-33 the bezel A1/A2 buttons are wired to
a separate ACPI device, MAT003C (ACPI path \_SB.TBTN), rather than the
main Hotkey device (MAT0019/HKEY) this driver already talks to.
MAT003C was present in the ACPI namespace but had no driver bound to
it, so A1/A2 produced no signal through any channel: no evdev events,
no ACPI notify (nothing logged), no WMI device, and no correlated ACPI
GPE interrupt activity.
Found by dumping and disassembling the platform's ACPI tables
(acpidump -b + iasl -d) and searching for EC _Qxx query handlers that
push scancodes into a hotkey queue. TBTN turned out to implement its
own HINF/HIND/SQTY/SINF method quartet, structurally a clone of HKEY's:
_Qxx handlers call TBTN.HIND(code) then Notify(TBTN, 0x80); HINF()
dequeues one scancode from a small EC-side FIFO. Confirmed scancodes:
0x38/0x39 = A1 press/release, 0x42/0x43 = A2 press/release. Unlike
HKEY, TBTN's codes never set the high bit -- press and release are
distinct scancodes rather than one code plus an up/down flag.
TBTN.SQTY returns 1 (it has no brightness/battery data, just a
button-availability flag), so it cannot be probed via the existing
acpi_pcc_hotkey_probe(), which requires num_sifr > SINF_DC_CUR_BRIGHT
(assumes every device has the full brightness/eco-mode/battery SINF
block). Add a second, minimal platform_driver bound to MAT003C
instead, with its own small input device reporting KEY_PROG2 (A1) and
KEY_PROG3 (A2) -- both already carry standard XKB keysym mappings
(XF86Launch2/XF86Launch3), so no udev/hwdb work is needed for desktop
environments to bind them to actions.
Verified on a CF-33 Mk1: evtest shows clean KEY_PROG2/KEY_PROG3
press/release pairs with real physical timing; confirmed bindable as
GNOME custom shortcuts and launching applications correctly.
Signed-off-by: Hilgad Montelo <hilgad.montelo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c | 168 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 167 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c
index 730d7cb..0afd6b8 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c
@@ -197,6 +197,42 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id pcc_device_ids[] = {
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, pcc_device_ids);
+/*
+ * On the CF-33 the bezel A1/A2 buttons are wired to a separate ACPI device
+ * (MAT003C, ACPI path \_SB.TBTN) rather than the main Hotkey (MAT0019/HKEY)
+ * device the rest of this driver talks to. TBTN implements its own
+ * HINF/HIND/SQTY/SINF method quartet, structurally a clone of HKEY's, but
+ * SQTY only reports a single SIFR element (a button-availability flag) --
+ * it has none of HKEY's brightness/battery/backlight state, so it can't be
+ * probed via acpi_pcc_hotkey_probe(), which requires the full SINF block.
+ * Register a second, minimal platform_driver for it instead.
+ */
+#define METHOD_TBTN_QUERY "HINF"
+#define TBTN_NOTIFY 0x80
+
+static const struct acpi_device_id tbtn_device_ids[] = {
+ { "MAT003C", 0},
+ { "", 0},
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, tbtn_device_ids);
+
+struct tbtn_acpi {
+ acpi_handle handle;
+ struct input_dev *input_dev;
+};
+
+static int tbtn_probe(struct platform_device *pdev);
+static void tbtn_remove(struct platform_device *pdev);
+
+static struct platform_driver acpi_tbtn_driver = {
+ .probe = tbtn_probe,
+ .remove = tbtn_remove,
+ .driver = {
+ .name = "Panasonic Tablet Buttons",
+ .acpi_match_table = tbtn_device_ids,
+ },
+};
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
static int acpi_pcc_hotkey_resume(struct device *dev);
#endif
@@ -951,6 +987,112 @@ static void acpi_pcc_hotkey_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data)
}
}
+/*
+ * TBTN's HINF dequeues one raw scancode from a small EC-side FIFO (0 if
+ * empty) and re-Notify()s itself if more than one entry was pending, so a
+ * single evaluate-and-report per notification is sufficient here -- unlike
+ * HKEY, TBTN's codes never set the high bit, since press and release are
+ * distinct scancodes rather than one code plus an up/down flag.
+ */
+static void tbtn_report_key(struct tbtn_acpi *tbtn, unsigned int code)
+{
+ static const struct {
+ unsigned int code;
+ unsigned int keycode;
+ bool down;
+ } keymap[] = {
+ { 0x38, KEY_PROG2, true }, /* A1 press */
+ { 0x39, KEY_PROG2, false }, /* A1 release */
+ { 0x42, KEY_PROG3, true }, /* A2 press */
+ { 0x43, KEY_PROG3, false }, /* A2 release */
+ };
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(keymap); i++) {
+ if (keymap[i].code != code)
+ continue;
+ input_report_key(tbtn->input_dev, keymap[i].keycode, keymap[i].down);
+ input_sync(tbtn->input_dev);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ pr_info("Unknown TBTN hotkey event: 0x%02x\n", code);
+}
+
+static void tbtn_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data)
+{
+ struct tbtn_acpi *tbtn = data;
+ unsigned long long result;
+ acpi_status status;
+
+ if (event != TBTN_NOTIFY)
+ return;
+
+ status = acpi_evaluate_integer(tbtn->handle, METHOD_TBTN_QUERY,
+ NULL, &result);
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+ pr_err("TBTN: error getting hotkey status\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (result)
+ tbtn_report_key(tbtn, result);
+}
+
+static int tbtn_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+ struct acpi_device *device = ACPI_COMPANION(&pdev->dev);
+ struct tbtn_acpi *tbtn;
+ struct input_dev *input_dev;
+ int error;
+
+ if (!device)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ tbtn = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tbtn), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tbtn)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ tbtn->handle = device->handle;
+ device->driver_data = tbtn;
+
+ input_dev = devm_input_allocate_device(&pdev->dev);
+ if (!input_dev)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ input_dev->name = "Panasonic Tablet Buttons";
+ input_dev->phys = "panasonic/tbtn0";
+ input_dev->id.bustype = BUS_HOST;
+ input_dev->id.vendor = 0x0001;
+ input_dev->id.product = 0x0002;
+ input_dev->id.version = 0x0100;
+ input_set_capability(input_dev, EV_KEY, KEY_PROG2);
+ input_set_capability(input_dev, EV_KEY, KEY_PROG3);
+
+ error = input_register_device(input_dev);
+ if (error) {
+ pr_err("TBTN: unable to register input device\n");
+ return error;
+ }
+
+ tbtn->input_dev = input_dev;
+
+ error = acpi_dev_install_notify_handler(device, ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
+ tbtn_notify, tbtn);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void tbtn_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+ struct acpi_device *device = ACPI_COMPANION(&pdev->dev);
+
+ acpi_dev_remove_notify_handler(device, ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY, tbtn_notify);
+ device->driver_data = NULL;
+}
+
static void pcc_optd_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data)
{
if (event != ACPI_NOTIFY_EJECT_REQUEST)
@@ -1211,4 +1353,28 @@ static void acpi_pcc_hotkey_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
kfree(pcc);
}
-module_platform_driver(acpi_pcc_driver);
+static int __init panasonic_module_init(void)
+{
+ int error;
+
+ error = platform_driver_register(&acpi_pcc_driver);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
+ error = platform_driver_register(&acpi_tbtn_driver);
+ if (error) {
+ platform_driver_unregister(&acpi_pcc_driver);
+ return error;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit panasonic_module_exit(void)
+{
+ platform_driver_unregister(&acpi_tbtn_driver);
+ platform_driver_unregister(&acpi_pcc_driver);
+}
+
+module_init(panasonic_module_init);
+module_exit(panasonic_module_exit);
--
2.53.0