On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Philipp Gesang <phg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nice tool. With a vanilla kernel I get a value of 0x80000000
> before suspend and 0x00000000 after resume. With the patched
> kernel it’s 0x80000000 before and after.
>
> On the vanilla kernel, issuing ``intel_reg write 0x61260 0x80000000``
> after resume turns the backlight back on.
Please try this patch:
>From 018c3dab349b9ba82364ea6e7257d1bbad3df2ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:55:06 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: fix backlight on gen2
Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
Some 855gm models (at least ThinkPad X40) regressed because of
commit b0cd324faed23d10d66ba6ade66579c681feef6f
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 12 16:25:43 2014 +0200
drm/i915: don't save/restore backlight hist ctl registers
which tried to make our driver more robust by not blindly saving and
restoring registers, but it failed to take into account
commit 0eb96d6ed38430b72897adde58f5477a6b71757a
Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 14 12:33:41 2009 -0700
drm/i915: save/restore BLC histogram control reg across suspend/resume
Fix the regression by enabling hist ctl on gen2.
Reported-by: Philipp Gesang <phg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
References: http://mid.gmane.org/20150623222648.GD12335@acheron
Fixes: b0cd324faed2 ("drm/i915: don't save/restore backlight hist ctl registers")
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
index fa9ccb87eb66..bf7c08b94088 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
@@ -3507,6 +3507,7 @@ enum skl_disp_power_wells {
#define BLM_POLARITY_PNV (1 << 0) /* pnv only */
#define BLC_HIST_CTL (dev_priv->info.display_mmio_offset + 0x61260)
+#define BLM_HISTOGRAM_ENABLE (1 << 31)
/* New registers for PCH-split platforms. Safe where new bits show up, the
* register layout machtes with gen4 BLC_PWM_CTL[12]. */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
index 7d83527f95f7..c4d884d9e223 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
@@ -907,6 +907,10 @@ static void i9xx_enable_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector)
/* XXX: combine this into above write? */
intel_panel_actually_set_backlight(connector, panel->backlight.level);
+
+ /* Needed to enable backlight. */
+ if (IS_GEN2(dev))
+ I915_WRITE(BLC_HIST_CTL, BLM_HISTOGRAM_ENABLE);
}
static void i965_enable_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector)
--
2.1.4
--
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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