[PATCH] i915: Introduce quirk for shifting eDP brightness.

Kevin Chowski chowski at chromium.org
Thu Sep 17 17:31:13 UTC 2020


Thanks very much for the quick reply, Lyude!

I'm happy to make the requested changes, but I wanted to clarify before
falling down the wrong hole: are you suggesting that I move
the intel_dp_aux_set_backlight/intel_dp_aux_get_backlight routines to
the drm_dp_helper.c file?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:13 AM Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com> wrote:

> Just an FYI, my plan for some of this eDP backlight code is to move as
> much of
> it into helpers as possible since we need to implement the same interface
> in
> nouveau. We probably can figure out some other solution for handling this
> quirk
> if this isn't possible, but could we maybe use the panel's OUI here and
> add a
> quirk to drm_dp_helper.c instead?
>
> On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 11:09 -0600, Kevin Chowski wrote:
> > We have observed that Google Pixelbook's backlight hardware is
> > interpretting these backlight bits from the most-significant side of the
> > 16 bit word (if DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT < 16), whereas the driver code
> > assumes the peripheral cares about the least-significant bits.
> >
> > Testing was done from within Chrome OS's build environment when the
> > patch is backported to 5.4 (the version we are newly targeting for the
> > Pixelbook); for the record:
> >    $ emerge-eve-kernelnext sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_4 && \
> >       ./update_kernel.sh --remote=$IP
> >
> > I used `/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/eDP-1/i915_dpcd` on my laptop to verify
> > that the registers were being set according to what the actual hardware
> > expects; I also observe that the backlight is noticeably brighter with
> > this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Chowski <chowski at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> >  .../drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c   | 13 +++++++
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h               |  1 +
> >  3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > index acbd7eb66cbe3..99c98f217356d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > @@ -91,6 +91,23 @@ static u32 intel_dp_aux_get_backlight(struct
> > intel_connector *connector)
> >       if (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_BYTE_COUNT)
> >               level = (read_val[0] << 8 | read_val[1]);
> >
> > +     if (i915->quirks & QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS) {
> > +             if (!drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux,
> DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT,
> > +                                             &read_val[0])) {
> > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to read DPCD register
> 0x%x\n",
> > +                                     DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT);
> > +                     return 0;
> > +             }
> > +             // Only bits 4:0 are used, 7:5 are reserved.
> > +             read_val[0] = read_val[0] & 0x1F;
> > +             if (read_val[0] > 16) {
> > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Invalid DP_EDP_PWNGEN_BIT_COUNT
> 0x%X,
> > expected at most 16\n",
> > +                                             read_val[0]);
> > +                     return 0;
> > +             }
> > +             level >>= 16 - read_val[0];
> > +     }
> > +
> >       return level;
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -106,6 +123,23 @@ intel_dp_aux_set_backlight(const struct
> > drm_connector_state *conn_state, u32 lev
> >       struct drm_i915_private *i915 = dp_to_i915(intel_dp);
> >       u8 vals[2] = { 0x0 };
> >
> > +     if (i915->quirks & QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS) {
> > +             if (!drm_dp_dpcd_readb(&intel_dp->aux,
> DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT,
> > +                                             &vals[0])) {
> > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to write aux backlight level:
> > Failed to read DPCD register 0x%x\n",
> > +                                       DP_EDP_PWMGEN_BIT_COUNT);
> > +                     return;
> > +             }
> > +             // Only bits 4:0 are used, 7:5 are reserved.
> > +             vals[0] = vals[0] & 0x1F;
> > +             if (vals[0] > 16) {
> > +                     DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Failed to write aux backlight level:
> > Invalid DP_EDP_PWNGEN_BIT_COUNT 0x%X, expected at most 16\n",
> > +                                             vals[0]);
> > +                     return;
> > +             }
> > +             level <<= (16 - vals[0]) & 0xFFFF;
> > +     }
> > +
> >       vals[0] = level;
> >
> >       /* Write the MSB and/or LSB */
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > index 46beb155d835f..63b27d49b2864 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
> > @@ -53,6 +53,16 @@ static void quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time(struct
> > drm_i915_private *i915)
> >       drm_info(&i915->drm, "Applying Increase DDI Disabled quirk\n");
> >  }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Some eDP backlight hardware uses the most-significant bits of the
> > brightness
> > + * register, so brightness values must be shifted first.
> > + */
> > +static void quirk_shift_edp_backlight_brightness(struct drm_i915_private
> > *i915)
> > +{
> > +     i915->quirks |= QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS;
> > +     DRM_INFO("Applying shift eDP backlight brightness quirk\n");
> > +}
> > +
> >  struct intel_quirk {
> >       int device;
> >       int subsystem_vendor;
> > @@ -156,6 +166,9 @@ static struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
> >       /* ASRock ITX*/
> >       { 0x3185, 0x1849, 0x2212, quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time },
> >       { 0x3184, 0x1849, 0x2212, quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time },
> > +
> > +     /* Google Pixelbook */
> > +     { 0x591E, 0x8086, 0x2212, quirk_shift_edp_backlight_brightness },
> >  };
> >
> >  void intel_init_quirks(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > index e4f7f6518945b..cc93bede4fab8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> > @@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ struct i915_psr {
> >  #define QUIRK_PIN_SWIZZLED_PAGES (1<<5)
> >  #define QUIRK_INCREASE_T12_DELAY (1<<6)
> >  #define QUIRK_INCREASE_DDI_DISABLED_TIME (1<<7)
> > +#define QUIRK_SHIFT_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS (1<<8)
> >
> >  struct intel_fbdev;
> >  struct intel_fbc_work;
> --
> Sincerely,
>       Lyude Paul (she/her)
>       Software Engineer at Red Hat
>
>
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