On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:09:40PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:32:18 -0400, Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Not all systems expose a firmware or platform mechanism for changing the > > backlight intensity on i915, so add native driver support. > > This will conflict with a similar patch I have in drm-intel-next to unify > the various bits of code that were attempting to modify the BLC PWM, each > in their own unique fashion. > > I'll respin this native interface on top of that. Do you want to add a > native RAW interface all in one go, or to base it on the current > backlight_device and then to add the RAW property with this patch set?
I don't think providing a native interface in i915 is beneficial without providing the type information - userspace just doesn't have any way to identify the correct device otherwise. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
