The quirk was added as what I'd say was a stopgap measure in commit e85843bec6c2ea7c10ec61238396891cc2b753a9 Author: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Date: Fri Jul 19 15:02:01 2013 -0700 drm/i915: quirk no PCH_PWM_ENABLE for Dell XPS13 backlight without really digging into what was going on. Also, as mentioned in the related bug [1], having the quirk regressed some of the machines it was supposed to fix to begin with, and there were patches posted to disable the quirk on such machines [2]! The fact is, we do need the BLM_PCH_PWM_ENABLE bit set to have backlight. With the quirk, we've relied on BIOS to have set it, and our save/restore code to retain it. With the full backlight setup at enable, we have no place for things that rely on previous state. With the per platform hooks, we've also made a change in the PCH platform enable order: setting the backlight duty cycle between CPU and PCH PWM enable. Some experimenting and commit 770c12312ad617172b1a65b911d3e6564fc5aca8 Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Date: Sat Aug 11 08:56:42 2012 +0200 drm/i915: Fix blank panel at reopening lid indicate that we can't set the backlight before enabling CPU PWM; the value just won't stick. But AFAICT we should do it before enabling the PCH PWM. Finally, any fallout we should fix properly, preferrably without quirks, and absolutely without quirks that rely on existing state. With the per platform hooks have much more flexibility to adjust the sequence as required by platforms. [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47941 [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378229848-29113-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
************************************************************ * For the very latest on DRI development, please see: * * http://dri.freedesktop.org/ * ************************************************************ The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major ways: 1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via the use of an optimized two-tiered lock. 2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to restricted regions of memory. 3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context switch. 4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module. Documentation on the DRI is available from: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387 http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/ For specific information about kernel-level support, see: The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html