[PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

[Indan Zupancic]

On Thu, March 10, 2011 20:36, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:12 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>> +			val &= ~1;
>
> The reason for this is that some ancient platforms wire this bit to
> be "go to max backlight", or at least that's why this was in the 2D
> driver from which this code was derived.

If that is the case, then shouldn't it be at the end, after val *= lbpc?
I know it doesn't make much difference, as multiplying with an even number
always gives an even result, but it would make the intention clearer and
give a more precise result.

What about gen 3? Does it support combination mode too?

If you can confirm that there are no gen 2 systems with ASLE support,
we can remove the gen 2 check and only touch the PWM register, as the
ASLE code is the only one that changes the brightness. The panel code
only saves and restores it, and LBPC is saved and restored by the
BIOS already. Then those weird gen 2 quirks can be removed.

(Something for 2.6.39 perhaps.)

It's sad that something as simple as backlight control needs so much
code.

Greetings,

Indan