Re: [PATCH 00/22] Tahvo cleanups and Retu optimization

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:03:28 +0300
Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:51:23PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:45:53 +0300
> > Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:41:26PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:12:32 +0300
> > > > Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > Are you planning to implement a backlight driver for tahvo? I'm actually
> > > > > > using the functionality that you removed in this patchset in the OpenWRT
> > > > > > distribution.
> > > > > 
> > > > > if you have some extra documentation available, I could implement it
> > > > > whenever I have some extra couple hours to play with this again... I
> > > > > have no docs at all, but a led-tahvo.c would be really simple to get
> > > > > done :-)
> > > > 
> > > > All I have is the old code. No docs. It seems rather simple, though.
> > > > Only a PWM register. That's pretty straightforward.
> > > 
> > > cool, any pointers would be good ;-)
> > 
> > Pointers to what? How PWM works?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_width_modulation
> > 
> > You probably don't need to know the details, though.
> > Just write a 0 to the register to turn the LED off. And write
> > a 0xF (or 0x7F depending on tahvo revision) to the register to
> > turn it fully on. Any value in between to dim the LED.
> 
> no, not to PWM... pointers to the code using the old interface ;-)

Oh, got it now. :D

This patch connects the tahvo backlight API to the MIPID/omapfb backlight API:
https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/omap24xx/patches-2.6.38/820-backlight-fixes.patch

The actual backlight control is done in userspace:
http://bues.ch/gitweb?p=pwrtray.git;a=summary
http://bues.ch/gitweb?p=pwrtray.git;a=blob;f=backend/backlight_omapfb.c;hb=HEAD
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