[PATCH v3 5/5] drm/i915: Auto detect DPCD backlight support by default

Lyude Paul lyude at redhat.com
Thu Jan 16 21:16:12 UTC 2020


Turns out we actually already have some companies, such as Lenovo,
shipping machines with AMOLED screens that don't allow controlling the
backlight through the usual PWM interface and only allow controlling it
through the standard EDP DPCD interface. One example of one of these
laptops is the X1 Extreme 2nd Generation.

Since we've got systems that need this turned on by default now to have
backlight controls working out of the box, let's start auto-detecting it
for systems by default based on what the VBT tells us. We do this by
changing the default value for the enable_dpcd_backlight module param
from 0 to -1.

Tested-by: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
Tested-by: Perry Yuan <pyuan at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c | 2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
index 64009e99073d..905decc36e53 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ i915_param_named_unsafe(inject_probe_failure, uint, 0400,
 
 i915_param_named(enable_dpcd_backlight, int, 0600,
 	"Enable support for DPCD backlight control"
-	"(-1=use per-VBT LFP backlight type setting, 0=disabled [default], 1=enabled)");
+	"(-1=use per-VBT LFP backlight type setting [default], 0=disabled, 1=enabled)");
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT)
 i915_param_named(enable_gvt, bool, 0400,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h
index be6089e4f9e6..947d0a38fa3c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_params.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ struct drm_printer;
 	param(int, reset, 3, 0600) \
 	param(unsigned int, inject_probe_failure, 0, 0600) \
 	param(int, fastboot, -1, 0600) \
-	param(int, enable_dpcd_backlight, 0, 0600) \
+	param(int, enable_dpcd_backlight, -1, 0600) \
 	param(char *, force_probe, CONFIG_DRM_I915_FORCE_PROBE, 0400) \
 	param(unsigned long, fake_lmem_start, 0, 0400) \
 	/* leave bools at the end to not create holes */ \
-- 
2.24.1



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