[PATCH 0/2] drm/ssd130x: Wire up ssd133x backlight/dimming
From: Amit Barzilai
Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 01:31:28 EST
The ssd130x backlight controller adjusts brightness by writing the panel's
contrast, but ssd130x_update_bl() writes the single global SSD13XX_CONTRAST
(0x81) command that only the SSD130x and SSD132x families expose. SSD133x
has no such command: brightness is controlled through three per-channel
contrast registers (CONTRAST_A/B/C) that form a white-balance calibration
and must be scaled together. As a result the backlight device registered
for an ssd133x panel had no effect.
This series adds ssd133x dimming:
- Patch 1 extracts the ssd133x_init() contrast magic values into
ssd133x_set_contrast(), which scales the per-channel calibration by a
requested brightness so the white point is preserved while dimming.
- Patch 2 makes backlight_ops.update_status a per-family choice, so
ssd133x uses a handler that drives the three channels while SSD130x and
SSD132x keep the existing single-register path.
Note patch 1 changes the ssd133x power-on brightness: it previously booted
at the unscaled (full) calibration and ignored the contrast field, and now
honours the shared default contrast of 127, i.e. half of MAX_CONTRAST.
This is intentional and matches ssd130x, whose contrast register also
defaults to mid-scale, so all families now power on at ~50%.
WARNING - NOT TESTED ON HARDWARE: this series is compile-tested only. I do
not have an ssd133x panel, so the runtime behaviour -- in particular the
ssd133x contrast scaling and the new per-family backlight update -- is
unverified. It is posted now so that dependent work (ssd1351 support) can
be based on it. Review and testing by anyone with the hardware is welcome.
Amit Barzilai (2):
drm/ssd130x: Scale ssd133x per-channel contrast by brightness on init
drm/ssd130x: Add per-family update backlight logic
drivers/gpu/drm/solomon/ssd130x.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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