Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add max-power platform profile

From: Ilpo Järvinen

Date: Fri Nov 28 2025 - 05:25:38 EST


On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:16:02 -0800, Derek J. Clark wrote:

> This series adds a new "max-power" platform profile mode and uses it for
> the lenovo-wmi-gamezone driver. It also adds the Lenovo Legion Go 2 to
> the extreme mode quirks table.
>
> On some Lenovo Legion devices there is a thermal mode called extreme
> that corresponds to setting ppt/spl vlaues to the maximum achievable by
> the cooling solution. This correlates strongly with an overall power draw
> that exceeds the DC power draw capability of the internal battery. This
> mode being mapped to performance when extreme mode is detected as
> supported, with the actual performance mode being set to
> balanced-performance, has led to some misinformation being promulgated
> that performance is always a bad setting in Linux for these devices.
> There is also some confusion that the mode labeled performance in
> userspace, which corresponds to a red LED in Windows, shows as purple
> when set using the hardware extreme mode.
>
> [...]


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-next branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-next branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/3] acpi: platform_profile - Add max-power profile option
commit: 5aefbf5b68794870ccec126cd68bbfd1ee09283a
[2/3] platform/x86: lenovo-wmi-gamezone Use max-power rather than balanced-performance
commit: 8d0aef2b3a17e5ed3afc8c9a2e71f22ac41a799f
[3/3] platform/x86: wmi-gamezone: Add Legion Go 2 Quirks
commit: 55715d7ad5e772d621c3201da3895f250591bce8

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