User:Alonbl/Thinkpad Common

IBM Thinkpad mobile computers were always a great choice for Linux users. The BIOS and peripheral were supported due to IBM discloser of hardware specs.

Thinkpad BIOS was always compatible for suspend to ram and and suspend to disk.

Thinkpad ACPI module translated events read from NVRAM to actual ACPI events (such as dock, lid and button events). The NVRAM is a special device that can be used in order to read the state of the special Thinkpad keys. It is not event driven, so it must be pulled by the Thinkpad ACPI module.

HDAPS (Hard disk protection system) is a feature of Thinkpad that senses movements, and may use in order to park disks in order to keep them safe.

Recently also TPM chip was added, it is standard 1.2 TPM device and may be used by TPM enabled software.

Kernel
Typical Thinkpad specific configuration:

X11
To use scroll add the following:

hdaps
Until resolved, add at end:

KDE widget
Add HDPS widget to tray.

TPM
TODO

Maintainer
Alon Bar-Lev