Re: pwm_bl on i.MX6Q broken on 5.4-RC1+

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 06:11:29 EST


Hello OndÅej,

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 08:24:28PM +0200, OndÅej Jirman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 02:55:54PM -0500, Adam Ford wrote:
> > I have an i.MX6Q with an LCD and PWM controlled backlight. On 5.4-RC1
> > through the current master (16 Oct 2019), the backlight does not come
> > on by default. I can get it come on by manually setting the
> > brightness, but any video activity seems to blank the screen again
> > until I change the brightness again.
>
> You might want to check PWM driver that's used on your SoC. I had a similar
> breakage on Allwinner SoCs, and it was caused by a broken get_state callback.
> The problem was there for a long time and it was only exposed by the commit you
> bisected to.

I added Adam to the recipents of the Thread "backlight: pwm_bl:
configure pwm only once per backlight toggle" here on this list. In this
thread the problem is analysed and it's a bit different than for sun4i.
I assume we don't need to follow up on this report given the discussion
is already ongoing elsewhere.

Best regards
Uwe

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