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    leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG · 24e2d05d
    Bjorn Andersson authored
    The Light Pulse Generator (LPG) is a PWM-block found in a wide range of
    PMICs from Qualcomm. These PMICs typically comes with 1-8 LPG instances,
    with their output being routed to various other components, such as
    current sinks or GPIOs.
    
    Each LPG instance can operate on fixed parameters or based on a shared
    lookup-table, altering the duty cycle over time. This provides the means
    for hardware assisted transitions of LED brightness.
    
    A typical use case for the fixed parameter mode is to drive a PWM
    backlight control signal, the driver therefor allows each LPG instance
    to be exposed to the kernel either through the LED framework or the PWM
    framework.
    
    A typical use case for the LED configuration is to drive RGB LEDs in
    smartphones etc, for which the driver supports multiple channels to be
    ganged up to a MULTICOLOR LED. In this configuration the pattern
    generators will be synchronized, to allow for multi-color patterns.
    
    The idea of modelling this as a LED driver ontop of a PWM driver was
    considered, but setting the properties related to patterns does not fit
    in the PWM API. Similarly the idea of just duplicating the lower bits in
    a PWM and LED driver separately was considered, but this would not allow
    the PWM channels and LEDs to be configured on a per-board basis. The
    driver implements the more complex LED interface, and provides a PWM
    interface on the side of that, in the same driver.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarLuca Weiss <luca@z3ntu.xyz>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMarijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarMarijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>
    [On the Sony Xperia Nile Discovery, SDM630]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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