[PATCH] drm/i915/dp: Don't use DPCD backlights that need PWM enable/disable

Lyude Paul lyude at redhat.com
Thu Jan 21 18:36:43 UTC 2021


We haven't yet implemented support for backlights that need to be
enabled/disabled via PWM instead of AUX, which means we'll break things if
we enable DPCD backlight control on these machines. Luckily though since
most of these machines work fine just using the plain PWM backlight
controls anyway, there shouldn't be any issue with just leaving DPCD
backlight controls disabled in such situations.

This should fix the issues with PWM being left on that were being observed
on fi-bdw-samus.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
Fixes: 4a8d79901d5b ("drm/i915/dp: Enable Intel's HDR backlight interface (only SDR for now)")
Testcase: igt/gem_exec_suspend/basic-s0 # fi-bdw-samus
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Cc: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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 31a478f63d52..651884390137 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
@@ -586,9 +586,14 @@ intel_dp_aux_supports_vesa_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector)
 	struct drm_i915_private *i915 = dp_to_i915(intel_dp);
 
 	/* Check the eDP Display control capabilities registers to determine if
-	 * the panel can support backlight control over the aux channel
+	 * the panel can support backlight control over the aux channel.
+	 *
+	 * TODO: We currently only support AUX only backlight configurations, not backlights which
+	 * require a mix of PWM and AUX controls to work. In the mean time, these machines typically
+	 * work just fine using normal PWM controls anyway.
 	 */
 	if (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_TCON_BACKLIGHT_ADJUSTMENT_CAP &&
+	    (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[1] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_AUX_ENABLE_CAP) &&
 	    (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_AUX_SET_CAP)) {
 		drm_dbg_kms(&i915->drm, "AUX Backlight Control Supported!\n");
 		return true;
-- 
2.29.2



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