[PATCH v6 0/4] drm: Minimum backlight overrides and implementation for amdgpu

[Thomas Weißschuh]

Hi Harry, Leo and other amdgpu maintainers,

On 2024-08-24 20:33:53+0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The value of "min_input_signal" returned from ATIF on a Framework AMD 13
> is "12". This leads to a fairly bright minimum display backlight.
> 
> Introduce a quirk to override "min_input_signal" to "0" which leads to a
> much lower minimum brightness, which is still readable even in daylight.

could you take another look at the series?
The issues around panel power are not specific to the low pwm values,
so shouldn't have an impact on this series.
(And are nearly imperceptible anyways)

> One solution would be a fixed firmware version, which was announced but
> has no timeline.
> 
> ---
> Changes in v6:
> - Clean up cover letter and commit messages
> - Add my S-o-b to patch from Dustin
> - Mention testing in combination with "panel_power_savings"
> - Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240818-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-v5-0-b6c0ead0c73d@weissschuh.net
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - Forward-declare struct drm_edid
> - Reorder patches, quirk entries are last
> - Add patch from Dustin for additional quirk entries
> - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-v4-0-56a63ff897b7@weissschuh.net
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Switch back to v2 implementation
> - Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
> - Simplify quirk infrastructure to only handle min backlight quirks.
>   It can be extended if necessary.
> - Expand documentation.
> - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240731-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-v3-0-46d40bb21a62@weissschuh.net
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Switch to cmdline override parameter
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240623-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-v2-0-cecf7f49da9b@weissschuh.net
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Introduce proper drm backlight quirk infrastructure
> - Quirk by EDID and DMI instead of only DMI
> - Limit quirk to only single Framework 13 matte panel
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240610-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-v1-1-8459895a5b2a@weissschuh.net
> 
> ---
> Dustin L. Howett (1):
>       drm: panel-backlight-quirks: Add Framework 13 glossy and 2.8k panels
> 
> Thomas Weißschuh (3):
>       drm: Add panel backlight quirks
>       drm/amd/display: Add support for minimum backlight quirk
>       drm: panel-backlight-quirks: Add Framework 13 matte panel
> 
>  Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst             |  3 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig                           |  4 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile                          |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig                |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 10 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel_backlight_quirks.c      | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/drm/drm_utils.h                           |  4 +
>  7 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
> ---
> base-commit: d2bafcf224f3911b183113b2fcb536c9e90684a3
> change-id: 20240610-amdgpu-min-backlight-quirk-8402fd8e736a
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>
>