When I originally moved all of the VESA backlight code in i915 into DRM
helpers, one of the things I didn't have the hardware or time for
testing was machines that used a combination of PWM and DPCD in order to
control their backlights. This has since then caused some breakages and
resulted in us disabling DPCD backlight support on such machines. This
works fine, unless you have a machine that actually needs this
functionality for backlight controls to work at all. Additionally, we
will need to support PWM for when we start adding support for VESA's
product (as in the product of multiplication) control mode for better
brightness ranges.
So - let's finally finish up implementing basic support for these types
of backlights to solve these problems in our DP helpers, along with
implementing support for this in i915. And since digging into this issue
solved the last questions we really had about probing backlights in i915
for the most part, let's update some of the comments around that as
well!
Changes:
* Fixup docs
* Add patch to stop us from breaking nouveau
Lyude Paul (4):
drm/i915: Add support for panels with VESA backlights with PWM
enable/disable
drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: Explicitly check DPCD backlights for aux
enable/brightness
drm/dp, drm/i915: Add support for VESA backlights using PWM for
brightness control
drm/i915: Clarify probing order in intel_dp_aux_init_backlight_funcs()
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c | 75 +++++++++++------
.../drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 80 ++++++++++++++-----
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c | 5 +-
include/drm/drm_dp_helper.h | 7 +-
4 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
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