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

[Harry Wentland]

On 2024-09-16 14:23, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> 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)
> 

I think these patches are good.

Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com>

Harry

>> 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>
>>