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    drm/i915: panel: invert brightness via parameter · 7bd90909
    Carsten Emde authored
    Following the documentation of the Legacy Backlight Brightness (LBB)
    Register in the configuration space of some Intel PCI graphics adapters,
    setting the LBB register with the value 0x0 causes the backlight to be
    turned off, and 0xFF causes the backlight to be set to 100% intensity
    (http://download.intel.com/embedded/processors/Whitepaper/324567.pdf).
    The Acer Aspire 5734Z, however, turns the backlight off at 0xFF and sets
    it to maximum intensity at 0. In consequence, the screen of this systems
    becomes dark at an early boot stage which makes it unusable. The same
    inversion applies to the BLC_PWM_CTL I915 register. This problem was
    introduced in kernel version 2.6.38 when the PCI device of this system
    was first supported by the i915 KMS module.
    
    This patch adds a parameter to the i915 module to enable inversion of
    the brightness variable (i915.invert_brightness).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCarsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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