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drm/i915: try not to lose backlight CBLV precision
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ACPI has _BCM and _BQC methods to set and query the backlight
brightness, respectively. The ACPI opregion has variables BCLP and CBLV
to hold the requested and current backlight brightness, respectively.

The BCLP variable has range 0..255 while the others have range
0..100. This means the _BCM method has to scale the brightness for BCLP,
and the gfx driver has to scale the requested value back for CBLV. If
the _BQC method uses the CBLV variable (apparently some implementations
do, some don't) for current backlight level reporting, there's room for
rounding errors.

Use DIV_ROUND_UP for scaling back to CBLV to get back to the same values
that were passed to _BCM, presuming the _BCM simply uses bclp = (in *
255) / 100 for scaling to BCLP.

Reference: https://gist.github.com/aaronlu/6314920
Reported-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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Jani Nikula authored and Daniel Vetter committed Sep 6, 2013
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
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Expand Up @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static u32 asle_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 bclp)
return ASLE_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;

intel_panel_set_backlight(dev, bclp, 255);
iowrite32((bclp*0x64)/0xff | ASLE_CBLV_VALID, &asle->cblv);
iowrite32(DIV_ROUND_UP(bclp * 100, 255) | ASLE_CBLV_VALID, &asle->cblv);

return 0;
}
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