LCD with PWM backlight doesn't seem to work with atmel-hlcdc driver

LCD with PWM backlight doesn't seem to work with atmel-hlcdc driver

[Pedro Aguilar]

Hi,

I'm working on a custom board based on the Atmel sama5d3_ek. I have an 
LCD (T430T01W01A from Cristal Clear Technology) that has a PWM backlight 
and it should be supported in the device tree files (sama5d34ek_pda4) 
and the panel_simple driver since it's compatible with the already 
supported Innolux at043tn24.

When booting I see in the LCD the Atmel logo with some info, this means 
that electrically the board and the LCD work fine.

I built the LCD modules (pwm_atmel_hlcdc, backlight, pwm_bl, 
panel_simple and atmel_hlcdc_dc) out of the kernel and modprobe'd them 
manually after booting:

# modprobe pwm_atmel_hlcdc
# modprobe backlight
# modprobe pwm_bl
backlight_device_register: name=backlight
# modprobe panel_simple
# modprobe atmel_hlcdc_dc
[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
atmel-hlcdc-display-controller atmel-hlcdc-dc: DRM device successfully 
registered
atmel-hlcdc-display-controller atmel-hlcdc-dc: fb0: frame buffer device
atmel-hlcdc-display-controller atmel-hlcdc-dc: registered panic notifier
#

When modprobing pwm_bl the LCD seemed to be turned-off (the logo from 
uboot goes away) and the the PWM backlight is off.

I tried several user space programs (fb-set-rect and Qt5 examples built 
with buildroot) but the LCD seemed dead. All the entries in sysfs, such 
as /sys/class/backlight were present, but didn't work. For example, I 
tried to power on/off the backlight

echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/backlight/bl_power
echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/backlight/bl_power

but it didn't work. The same with the brightness.

The datasheet of this LCD and the Innolux LCD are equivalent.

It seems that there is something related to the voltage in the PWM 
backlight or panel regulators?

Do you have any idea/hint of what could cause this issue?

Thanks!

--
Pedro Aguilar

Re: LCD with PWM backlight doesn't seem to work with atmel-hlcdc driver

[Pedro Aguilar]

Hi,

Just to clarify that we solved this issue a couple of days after the 
original email.

The problem was that we wanted to use for the LCD PWM (backlight) a 
DIV_1 that the driver does not allow because of an issue with the Atmel 
SAMA5D34 (the atmel-hlcdc driver handles it correctly, see section 
60.4.1 in the datasheet).

With the other DIV_2-64 everything is working fine.

Regards.
--
Pedro Aguilar

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On 01/11/2016 07:38 PM, Pedro Aguilar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a custom board based on the Atmel sama5d3_ek. I have an
> LCD (T430T01W01A from Cristal Clear Technology) that has a PWM backlight
> and it should be supported in the device tree files (sama5d34ek_pda4)
> and the panel_simple driver since it's compatible with the already
> supported Innolux at043tn24.
>
> When booting I see in the LCD the Atmel logo with some info, this means
> that electrically the board and the LCD work fine.
>
> I built the LCD modules (pwm_atmel_hlcdc, backlight, pwm_bl,
> panel_simple and atmel_hlcdc_dc) out of the kernel and modprobe'd them
> manually after booting:
>
> # modprobe pwm_atmel_hlcdc
> # modprobe backlight
> # modprobe pwm_bl
> backlight_device_register: name=backlight
> # modprobe panel_simple
> # modprobe atmel_hlcdc_dc
> [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
> [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
> atmel-hlcdc-display-controller atmel-hlcdc-dc: DRM device successfully
> registered
> atmel-hlcdc-display-controller atmel-hlcdc-dc: fb0: frame buffer device
> atmel-hlcdc-display-controller atmel-hlcdc-dc: registered panic notifier
> #
>
> When modprobing pwm_bl the LCD seemed to be turned-off (the logo from
> uboot goes away) and the the PWM backlight is off.
>
> I tried several user space programs (fb-set-rect and Qt5 examples built
> with buildroot) but the LCD seemed dead. All the entries in sysfs, such
> as /sys/class/backlight were present, but didn't work. For example, I
> tried to power on/off the backlight
>
> echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/backlight/bl_power
> echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/backlight/bl_power
>
> but it didn't work. The same with the brightness.
>
> The datasheet of this LCD and the Innolux LCD are equivalent.
>
> It seems that there is something related to the voltage in the PWM
> backlight or panel regulators?
>
> Do you have any idea/hint of what could cause this issue?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Pedro Aguilar
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