On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 22:58:08 +0200 Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:14:47PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:15:23 +0200 > > Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 08:40:51AM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > > > [...] > > > > got a chance to test it on a Tolino Shine 2 HD. > > > > It uses the RTC from the RC5T619 but backlight seems to go via MSP430 > > > > EC. > > > > > > > > I got this. > > > > > > > > [ 1.453603] ntxec 0-0043: Netronix embedded controller version f110 detected. > > > > [ 10.723638] ntxec-rtc 21a0000.i2c:embedded-controller@43:rtc: registered as rtc0 > > > > [ 10.775276] ntxec-pwm: probe of 21a0000.i2c:embedded-controller@43:pwm failed with error -5 > > > > > > Hmm, -EIO from the PWM driver. > > > > > turing debugging on: > > (edited for compactness:) > > [ 330.332971] i2c i2c-0: write slave address: addr=0x86 ACK received > > [ 330.334420] i2c i2c-0: write byte: B0=0xA3 ACK received > > [ 330.334790] i2c i2c-0: write byte: B1=0x0 No ACK > > > [ 330.352339] i2c i2c-0: write slave address: addr=0x86 ACK received > > [ 330.362208] i2c i2c-0: write byte: B0=0xA1 ACK received > > [ 330.362479] i2c i2c-0: write byte: B1=0xFF No ACK > > > [ 330.363112] i2c i2c-0: write slave address: addr=0x86 ACK received > > [ 330.363362] i2c i2c-0: write byte: B0=0xA2 ACK received > > [ 330.363608] i2c i2c-0: write byte: B1=0xFF No ACK > > Hmm, it doesn't ack the writes to 0xA3, 0xA1 and 0xA2, which should > disable the PWM output and then disable the auto-off timer (according to > the vendor kernel). > > And you said in your other mail that you can actually toggle the light > with writes to 0xA3, so I suspect a bug in the EC firmware here (which > may have gone unnoticed because the vendor kernel doesn't check if the > i2c transfers succeed). :/ > That is a also my theory. > IMHO we should get this driver merged first, and perhaps add a quirk to > deal with the missing ACKs later (unless a better solution is found). > Yes, that can be done separately (after the Tolino Shine 2 HD dtb is in, I am polishing it right now). Regards, Andreas
