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The backlight fix did not configure kernel parameters for Limine. This adds Limine configuration support and documents that the new path is early and untested; it may be unstable or not work.

  • Limine: Detects the bootloader and updates Linux entry command lines; disable removes the added parameter.
  • Docs: Updates the English and Dutch guides and script checksums.

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  • docs: changes to CONTRIBUTING, README, or meta documentation
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  • style: formatting, whitespace, typos
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  • PR title follows the commit convention (e.g. fix: correct nmcli command in eduroam guide)
  • Both EN and NL versions updated (if applicable)
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  • No broken image references (/images/*.avif all exist in static/images/)
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  • New Features
    • The backlight tool now supports Limine alongside GRUB and rpm-ostree. It can add acpi_backlight=native to Linux boot entries and remove that parameter when disabling the fix. Limine support is early, untested, and may be unstable or nonfunctional.
  • Documentation
    • Added manual instructions for configuring and undoing the Limine setting, and updated the tool’s download checksum.

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The backlight script adds Limine as a kernel-parameter backend. It locates and parses supported configuration files, edits Linux entries through the privileged action flow, and reports Limine status. The English and Dutch documentation now describes Limine support as early and untested.

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Limine backlight support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Identify and read Limine configuration
src/static/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py
The script discovers supported Limine configuration files, uses EFI loader information during backend selection, and reads parameters from Linux entries. It reports ambiguous or unsupported configurations.
Plan and apply Limine parameter edits
src/static/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py
Enable adds acpi_backlight=native without replacing existing acpi_backlight= values. Disable removes only acpi_backlight=native. The write flow checks for file changes and restores the original file if installation fails or is interrupted.
Report and document Limine support
src/static/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py, src/content/docs/known-issues.md, src/content/docs/known-issues.nl.md
Status output identifies the Limine configuration and labels the backend early and untested. The English and Dutch documentation updates the checksum and describes Limine support and its untested status.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BacklightFix
  participant LimineConfig
  participant PrivilegedAction
  BacklightFix->>LimineConfig: Reads selected path and original contents
  BacklightFix->>PrivilegedAction: Submits expected and proposed contents
  PrivilegedAction->>LimineConfig: Verifies contents and installs proposed file
  PrivilegedAction->>LimineConfig: Restores original file after interruption or failed installation
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 45cf4

Limine users whose configuration uses CRLF line endings will see enable and disable fail with a changed-on-disk error, and nothing is modified. The fix is small. Limine support is already labeled early and untested.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 45cf4

The new integration changes boot-critical configuration with administrator authorization. It checks for stale contents and attempts rollback, but a failed restoration is followed by deletion of the saved recovery copy. Exposure is local to the machine; filesystem ownership and concurrent-write assumptions remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · observed: The new Limine transition deletes its temporary rollback workspace on exit, including when restoring the original configuration fails. This discards the integration's only saved pre-update configuration precisely when manual recovery may need it. Ordinary write failures and INT/TERM are handled, but failed restoration has weaker recovery containment than the existing GRUB enable path with its persistent backup.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported exposure is device-local: intended edits affect every explicit Linux entry in one selected configuration plus the existing modprobe rule. Because installation replaces the whole configuration, a failed write or recovery can affect the complete boot menu, beyond the Linux entries intentionally edited.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new trust transition is from filesystem-discovered boot configuration to an authorized privileged write. Discovery follows file metadata and deduplicates by device/inode, while application checks contents rather than holding stable object identity. The scoped flow contains no explicit owner, parent-directory permission, or no-symlink validation; whether an untrusted user can influence those paths remains a deployment coverage gap.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The content comparison catches changes made before comparison but does not serialize comparison and installation. Kernel-parameter and modprobe updates remain separate transitions, so later modprobe failure can leave the kernel parameter applied. Both patterns predate this PR in the GRUB flow; Limine inherits them for a newly supported configuration owner.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Retain a recoverable configuration copy when restoration fails and report its location. Consider a filesystem-compatible staged replacement with coordinated writes and explicit destination-authority checks, validating the design against supported EFI filesystem and symlink layouts rather than assuming those properties.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 45.83% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 1 files. (2 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding Limine support to the backlight fix.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the required template, explains the Limine feature, identifies the documentation updates, selects the applicable change types, and records the incomplete local Hugo test.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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🟡 Changes recommended

Limine discovery and parameter aggregation can reject valid configurations, select inactive ones, or report incomplete entries as configured.

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What changed in this PR

Adds early Limine support to the backlight-fix workflow.

Changes:

  • Detects and edits Limine Linux boot entries.
  • Extends status, rollback, and error handling.
  • Updates bilingual documentation and verified checksums.
File Description
src/​static/​scripts/​zephyrus-backlight.py Adds Limine detection and configuration support.
src/​content/​docs/​known-issues.md Documents Limine support and limitations.
src/​content/​docs/​known-issues.nl.md Adds the corresponding Dutch documentation.

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Comment on lines +627 to +631
paths = {}
for path in LIMINE_CONFIG_CANDIDATES:
if path.is_file():
paths[path.resolve()] = path
return list(paths.values())
Comment thread src/static/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py Outdated
Comment on lines +683 to +684
if cmdlines:
params.extend(cmdlines[0].split())
index = cmdline_indexes[0]
match = _LIMINE_CMDLINE_RE.match(block[index])
assert match is not None
params = match.group(2).split()
Comment thread src/content/docs/known-issues.md Outdated
```

Without an action it opens a menu. From the terminal: `status`, `test`, `enable` or `disable`, plus `--silent` for no dialogs. It sets the kernel parameter through GRUB or through `rpm-ostree kargs`, whichever the system uses, and only enables the fix on a GA605WV. `disable` reverts what `enable` changed rather than just deleting it: an `acpi_backlight=` value it replaced, and a modprobe rule of your own that it moved aside, both come back. Source: [zephyrus-backlight.py](/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py), SHA-256 `f571e8e54de485f16747fc528d95765ae2e3564039d648219cf21d0177b0458d`.
Without an action it opens a menu. From the terminal: `status`, `test`, `enable` or `disable`, plus `--silent` for no dialogs. It sets the kernel parameter through GRUB, `rpm-ostree kargs`, or a Limine config, whichever the system uses, and only enables the fix on a GA605WV. Limine support is early and untested; it may be unstable or not work. `disable` removes the fix's kernel parameter (restoring a replaced GRUB value) and restores a modprobe rule of your own that it moved aside. Source: [zephyrus-backlight.py](/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py), SHA-256 `3ea751d7a4b1ac930de974bfe26f16ee3952fb96fa6ef31aa44756a0ae09cba5`.
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Addressed the requested Limine review findings in 45cf485.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve line endings when reading the configuration. · zephyrus-backlight.py:1105

src/static/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py:1105
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve line endings when reading the configuration.

Path.read_text() applies universal-newline translation. For a Limine configuration with CRLF line endings, _apply() compares the LF-normalized original string with the on-disk CRLF file and reports CHANGED_ON_DISK. Both enable and disable then fail.

Read the configuration with open(encoding="utf-8", newline=""). This preserves the line endings through rewrite_limine() and the subsequent install write.

Suggested fix
-            original = config_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+            with config_path.open("r", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as config_file:
+                original = config_file.read()
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Review comment at @src/static/scripts/zephyrus-backlight.py at line 1105:
Update the configuration read in _apply to preserve existing line endings by
opening config_path with UTF-8 encoding and newline translation disabled, then
reading from that file handle. Keep the original line endings intact through
rewrite_limine and the subsequent install write so CRLF configurations do not
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- Line 1105: Update the configuration read in _apply to preserve existing line
endings by opening config_path with UTF-8 encoding and newline translation
disabled, then reading from that file handle. Keep the original line endings
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