[PATCH 0/3] PWM backlight interpolation adjustments

From: Alexandru Stan
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 00:27:14 EST


I was trying to adjust the brightness for a new chromebook:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/2291209
Like a lot of panels, the low end needs to be cropped,
and now that we have the interpolation stuff I wanted to make use of it
and bake in even the curve.

I found the behavior a little unintuitive and non-linear. See patch 1
for a suggested fix for this.

Unfortunatelly a few veyron dts files were relying on this
(perhaps weird) behavior. Those devices also want a minimum brightness.
The issue is that they also want the 0% point for turning off the
display.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6233269bce47bd450196a671ab28eb1ec5eb88d9#diff-e401ae20091bbfb311a062c464f4f47fL23

So the idea here is to change those dts files to only say <3 255> (patch
3), and add in a virtual 0% point at the bottom of the scale (patch 2).

We have to do this conditionally because it seems some devices like to
have the scale inverted:
% git grep "brightness-levels\s*=\s*<\s*[1-9]"|cat
arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124-apalis-eval.dts: brightness-levels = <255 231 223 207 191 159 127 0>;


Alexandru Stan (3):
backlight: pwm_bl: Fix interpolation
backlight: pwm_bl: Artificially add 0% during interpolation
ARM: dts: rockchip: Remove 0 point in backlight

arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts | 2 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts | 2 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts | 2 +-
drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 78 +++++++++++-----------
4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

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