[PATCH] drm/radeon: set default bl level to something reasonable

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 08:47:34 PDT 2014


If the value in the scratch register is 0, set it to the
max level.  This fixes an issue where the console fb blanking
code calls back into the backlight driver on unblank and then
sets the backlight level to 0 after the driver has already
set the mode and enabled the backlight.

bugs:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81382
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70207

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
index 2b29084..7d68203 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ void radeon_atom_backlight_init(struct radeon_encoder *radeon_encoder,
 	struct backlight_properties props;
 	struct radeon_backlight_privdata *pdata;
 	struct radeon_encoder_atom_dig *dig;
-	u8 backlight_level;
 	char bl_name[16];
 
 	/* Mac laptops with multiple GPUs use the gmux driver for backlight
@@ -222,12 +221,17 @@ void radeon_atom_backlight_init(struct radeon_encoder *radeon_encoder,
 
 	pdata->encoder = radeon_encoder;
 
-	backlight_level = radeon_atom_get_backlight_level_from_reg(rdev);
-
 	dig = radeon_encoder->enc_priv;
 	dig->bl_dev = bd;
 
 	bd->props.brightness = radeon_atom_backlight_get_brightness(bd);
+	/* Set a reasonable default here if the level is 0 otherwise
+	 * fbdev will attempt to turn the backlight on after console
+	 * unblanking and it will try and restore 0 which turns the backlight
+	 * off again.
+	 */
+	if (bd->props.brightness == 0)
+		bd->props.brightness = RADEON_MAX_BL_LEVEL;
 	bd->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
 	backlight_update_status(bd);
 
-- 
1.8.3.1



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