[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/quirks: Add inverted backlight quirk for HP 14-r206nv

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2023, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Feb 2023, Mavroudis Chatzilaridis <mavchatz at protonmail.com> wrote:
>> This laptop uses inverted backlight PWM. Thus, without this quirk,
>> backlight brightness decreases as the brightness value increases and
>> vice versa.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mavroudis Chatzilaridis <mavchatz at protonmail.com>
>
> Thanks for the patch, but this really needs a bug filed at fdo gitlab
> with dmesg, VBT, etc. [1]
>
> I don't doubt you, but the fix may need to be different. All the
> previous quirks were on ancient GM45, and I was pretty sure the problems
> were limited to that platform. I'm hesitant to add the quirk to other
> platforms without more info.
>
> Thanks,
> Jani.
>
>
> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/wikis/How-to-file-i915-bugs

So we pretty much exhausted all the possibilities at [2], and we're left
with the quirk. I've pushed this to drm-intel-next with cc: stable,
thanks for the patch.

BR,
Jani.


PS. For posterity, this did pass BAT and IGT despite the CI reply in
this thread [3].


[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8013
[3] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/113568/

>
>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
>> index 6e48d3bcdfec..a280448df771 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_quirks.c
>> @@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ static struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
>>  	/* ECS Liva Q2 */
>>  	{ 0x3185, 0x1019, 0xa94d, quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time },
>>  	{ 0x3184, 0x1019, 0xa94d, quirk_increase_ddi_disabled_time },
>> +	/* HP Notebook - 14-r206nv */
>> +	{ 0x0f31, 0x103c, 0x220f, quirk_invert_brightness },
>>  };
>>
>>  void intel_init_quirks(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center