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Commit 867cf9cd authored by Lyude Paul's avatar Lyude Paul
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drm/dp: Extract i915's eDP backlight code into DRM helpers



Since we're about to implement eDP backlight support in nouveau using the
standard protocol from VESA, we might as well just take the code that's
already written for this and move it into a set of shared DRM helpers.

Note that these helpers are intended to handle DPCD related backlight
control bits such as setting the brightness level over AUX, probing the
backlight's TCON, enabling/disabling the backlight over AUX if supported,
etc. Any PWM-related portions of backlight control are explicitly left up
to the driver, as these will vary from platform to platform.

The only exception to this is the calculation of the PWM frequency
pre-divider value. This is because the only platform-specific information
required for this is the PWM frequency of the panel, which the driver is
expected to provide if available. The actual algorithm for calculating this
value is standard and is defined in the eDP specification from VESA.

Note that these helpers do not yet implement the full range of features
the VESA backlight interface provides, and only provide the following
functionality (all of which was already present in i915's DPCD backlight
support):

* Basic control of brightness levels
* Basic probing of backlight capabilities
* Helpers for enabling and disabling the backlight

v3:
* Split out changes to i915's backlight code to separate patches to make it
  easier to review
v4:
* Style/spelling changes from Thomas Zimmermann
v5:
* Start using new drm_dbg_*() functions

Signed-off-by: default avatarLyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: greg.depoire@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: default avatarRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210514181504.565252-9-lyude@redhat.com
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