[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Parse panel BL controller from VBT

Bob Paauwe bob.j.paauwe at intel.com
Wed Dec 7 17:44:45 UTC 2016


I currently have this same patch in my tree (well with the two changes
below) and have been testing it so with the changes.

Reviewed-by: Bob Paauwe <bob.j.paauwe at intel.com>
Tested-by: Bob Paauwe <bob.j.paauwe at intel.com>

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 20:32:18 +0530 Vidya Srinivas
<vidya.srinivas at intel.com> wrote:

> Currently the backlight controller is taken as 0. It needs to derive
> value from the VBT. Adding the necessary changes.
> 
> v2: Updated the commit header
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uma Shankar <uma.shankar at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vidya Srinivas <vidya.srinivas at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h    | 1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c  | 5 +++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 8daa4fb..6a85fdf 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -1633,6 +1633,7 @@ struct intel_vbt_data {
>  		bool present;
>  		bool active_low_pwm;
>  		u8 min_brightness;	/* min_brightness/255 of max */
> +		u8 controller;		/* brightness controller number */
>  		enum intel_backlight_type type;
>  	} backlight;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
> index eaade27..130db0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
> @@ -330,6 +330,8 @@ static u32 get_blocksize(const void *block_data)
>  
>  		method = &backlight_data->backlight_control[panel_type];
>  		dev_priv->vbt.backlight.type = method->type;
> +		dev_priv->vbt.backlight.controller = 0;

Setting it to zero first seems redundant.  Is there a reason you do
this?

> +		dev_priv->vbt.backlight.controller = method->controller;
>  	}
>  
>  	dev_priv->vbt.backlight.pwm_freq_hz = entry->pwm_freq_hz;
> @@ -341,6 +343,9 @@ static u32 get_blocksize(const void *block_data)
>  		      dev_priv->vbt.backlight.active_low_pwm ? "low" : "high",
>  		      dev_priv->vbt.backlight.min_brightness,
>  		      backlight_data->level[panel_type]);
> +
> +	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("VBT BL controller %u\n",
> +			dev_priv->vbt.backlight.controller);
>  }
>  
>  /* Try to find sdvo panel data */
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> index 3578b40..6a7d4c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> @@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ static int vlv_setup_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector, enum pipe pipe
>  	 * For BXT hard coding the Backlight controller to 0.
>  	 * TODO : Read the controller value from VBT and generalize
>  	 */
> -	panel->backlight.controller = 0;
> +	panel->backlight.controller = dev_priv->vbt.backlight.controller;

You should remove the comment above now that it's not hard coded.

>  
>  	pwm_ctl = I915_READ(BXT_BLC_PWM_CTL(panel->backlight.controller));
>  



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Bob Paauwe                  
Bob.J.Paauwe at intel.com
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