On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 02:57:44PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > While looking into adding atomic-pwm support to the pwm-crc driver I > noticed something odd, there is a PWM_BASE_CLK define of 6 MHz and > there is a clock-divider which divides this with a value between 1-128, > and there are 256 duty-cycle steps. > > The pwm-crc code before this commit assumed that a clock-divider > setting of 1 means that the PWM output is running at 6 MHZ, if that > is true, where do these 256 duty-cycle steps come from? > > This would require an internal frequency of 256 * 6 MHz = 1.5 GHz, that > seems unlikely for a PMIC which is using a silicon process optimized for > power-switching transistors. It is way more likely that there is an 8 > bit counter for the duty cycle which acts as an extra fixed divider > wrt the PWM output frequency. > > The main user of the pwm-crc driver is the i915 GPU driver which uses it > for backlight control. Lets compare the PWM register values set by the > video-BIOS (the GOP), assuming the extra fixed divider is present versus > the PWM frequency specified in the Video-BIOS-Tables: > > Device: PWM Hz set by BIOS PWM Hz specified in VBT > Asus T100TA 200 200 > Asus T100HA 200 200 > Lenovo Miix 2 8 23437 20000 > Toshiba WT8-A 23437 20000 > > So as we can see if we assume the extra division by 256 then the register > values set by the GOP are an exact match for the VBT values, where as > otherwise the values would be of by a factor of 256. > > This commit fixes the period / duty_cycle calculations to take the > extra division by 256 into account. > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v3: > - Use NSEC_PER_USEC instead of adding a new (non-sensical) NSEC_PER_MHZ define > --- > drivers/pwm/pwm-crc.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
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