Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] drm/i915: Don't use VBT for detecting DPCD backlight controls

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Despite the fact that the VBT appears to have a field for specifying
>> that a system is equipped with a panel that supports standard VESA
>> backlight controls over the DP AUX channel, so far every system we've
>> spotted DPCD backlight control support on doesn't actually set this
>> field correctly and all have it set to INTEL_BACKLIGHT_DISPLAY_DDI.
>>
>> While we don't know the exact reason for this VBT misuse, talking with
>> some vendors indicated that there's a good number of laptop panels out
>> there that supposedly support both PWM backlight controls and DPCD
>> backlight controls as a workaround until Intel supports DPCD backlight
>> controls across platforms universally. This being said, the X1 Extreme
>> 2nd Gen that I have here (note that Lenovo is not the hardware vendor
>> that informed us of this) PWM backlight controls are advertised, but
>> only DPCD controls actually function. I'm going to make an educated
>> guess here and say that on systems like this one, it's likely that PWM
>> backlight controls might have been intended to work but were never
>> really tested by QA.
>>
>> Since we really need backlights to work without any extra module
>> parameters, let's take the risk here and rely on the standard DPCD caps
>> to tell us whether AUX backlight controls are supported or not. We still
>> check the VBT, but only to make sure that we don't enable DPCD backlight
>> controls on a panel that uses something other then the standard VESA
>> interfaces over AUX. Since panels using such non-standard interfaces
>> should probably have support added to i915, we'll print a warning when
>> seeing this in the VBT. We can remove this warning later if we end up
>> adding support for any custom backlight interfaces.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112376
>> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Perry Yuan <pyuan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  .../drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c    | 16 ++++++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
>> index 77a759361c5c..3002b600635f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
>> @@ -330,13 +330,17 @@ int intel_dp_aux_init_backlight_funcs(struct intel_connector *intel_connector)
>>  	struct intel_panel *panel = &intel_connector->panel;
>>  	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(intel_connector->base.dev);
>>  
>> -	if (i915_modparams.enable_dpcd_backlight == 0 ||
>> -	    (i915_modparams.enable_dpcd_backlight == -1 &&
>> -	    dev_priv->vbt.backlight.type != INTEL_BACKLIGHT_VESA_EDP_AUX_INTERFACE))
>> -		return -ENODEV;
>> -
>> -	if (!intel_dp_aux_display_control_capable(intel_connector))
>> +	if (i915_modparams.enable_dpcd_backlight == 0)
>>  		return -ENODEV;
>> +	if (i915_modparams.enable_dpcd_backlight == -1) {
>> +		if (dev_priv->vbt.backlight.type
>> +		    == INTEL_BACKLIGHT_PANEL_DRIVER_INTERFACE) {
>> +			DRM_WARN("VBT says panel uses custom panel driver interface, not using DPCD backlight controls\n");
>> +			return -ENODEV;
>> +		}
>> +		if (!intel_dp_aux_display_control_capable(intel_connector))
>> +			return -ENODEV;
>
> Functionally, I'm fine with trying this. But perhaps we should check aux
> and early return first, and then check what vbt says, to reduce the
> dmesg noise.
>
> I'll probably want to see a debug message if we're enabling aux
> backlight even if dev_priv->vbt.backlight.type !=
> INTEL_BACKLIGHT_VESA_EDP_AUX_INTERFACE. It's the kind of debug trace
> you'll really want to get first.

So I've gone ahead and pushed patches 1-3 and 5 in this series, as they
were tested as part of the series I posted.

BR,
Jani.


>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
>
>> +	}
>>  
>>  	panel->backlight.setup = intel_dp_aux_setup_backlight;
>>  	panel->backlight.enable = intel_dp_aux_enable_backlight;

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center