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Lyude Paul f58a435311 drm/dp, drm/i915: Add support for VESA backlights using PWM for brightness control
Now that we've added support to i915 for controlling panel backlights that
need PWM to be enabled/disabled, let's finalize this and add support for
controlling brightness levels via PWM as well. This should hopefully put us
towards the path of supporting _ALL_ backlights via VESA's DPCD interface
which would allow us to finally start trusting the DPCD again.

Note however that we still don't enable using this by default on i915 when
it's not needed, primarily because I haven't yet had a chance to confirm if
it's safe to do this on the one machine in Intel's CI that had an issue
with this: samus-fi-bdw. I have done basic testing of this on other
machines though, by manually patching i915 to force it into PWM-only mode
on some of my laptops.

v2:
* Correct documentation (thanks Doug!)
* Get rid of backlight caps

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Rajeev Nandan <rajeevny@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Satadru Pramanik <satadru@gmail.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211105183342.130810-5-lyude@redhat.com
2021-11-17 17:36:48 -05:00
arch x86/MCE/AMD: Export smca_get_bank_type symbol 2021-10-06 15:53:24 -04:00
block blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd 2021-09-15 12:03:18 -06:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation drm: Clarify semantics of struct drm_mode_config.{min, max}_{width, height} 2021-11-11 12:06:58 +01:00
drivers drm/dp, drm/i915: Add support for VESA backlights using PWM for brightness control 2021-11-17 17:36:48 -05:00
fs iov_iter.3-5.15-2021-09-17 2021-09-17 09:23:44 -07:00
include drm/dp, drm/i915: Add support for VESA backlights using PWM for brightness control 2021-11-17 17:36:48 -05:00
init memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel Merge tag 'drm-intel-gt-next-2021-10-08' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-next 2021-10-11 18:09:39 +10:00
lib Merge tag 'drm-intel-gt-next-2021-10-08' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-next 2021-10-11 18:09:39 +10:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm drm-misc-next for $kernel-version: 2021-09-22 15:30:40 +10:00
net Networking fixes for 5.15-rc2, including fixes from bpf. 2021-09-16 13:05:42 -07:00
samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.15 2021-09-19 12:55:12 -07:00
security Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.15-rc1 2021-09-09 16:05:10 -07:00
tools powerpc fixes for 5.15 #2 2021-09-19 13:00:23 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid() 2021-09-06 08:23:46 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.mailmap mailmap: update email address of Matthias Fuchs and Thomas Körper 2021-08-19 09:39:44 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update information for nouveau 2021-11-12 23:45:54 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc2 2021-09-19 17:28:22 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.