4.13 (and probably all recent) kernels refuse to boot on one Nokia N950, work or another

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I got "uncompressing Linux 4.13" on serial console now, debug LEDs
> > blinking, and if I use a flashlight, I see output on the screen, too.
> > 
> > (What do I need to do to get the backlight working?)
> 
> Glad you got it working :) For backlight you can add this
> in drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c:
> 
> add the following code at the end of dsicm_probe:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
> mutex_lock(&ddata->lock);
> ddata->in->ops.dsi->bus_lock(ddata->in);
> r = dsicm_wake_up(ddata);
> if (!r)
>     r = dsicm_dcs_write_1(ddata, DCS_BRIGHTNESS, 100);
> ddata->in->ops.dsi->bus_unlock(ddata->in);
> mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
> -----------------------------------------------------------

That one did not work; but after some help from Filip, this did:

Best regards,
									Pavel

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c
index b5ea8e5..2cb74cc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static int dsicm_bl_update_status(struct backlight_device *dev)
 
 		r = dsicm_wake_up(ddata);
 		if (!r)
-			r = dsicm_dcs_write_1(ddata, DCS_BRIGHTNESS, level);
+			r = dsicm_dcs_write_1(ddata, DCS_BRIGHTNESS, 0xff /* level */);
 
 		in->ops.dsi->bus_unlock(in);
 	}


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