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From: Sven Schwermer <sven@svenschwermer.de>
To: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>,
	"Jacek Anaszewski" <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	pavel@ucw.cz, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
	thierry.reding@gmail.com, u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de,
	lee.jones@linaro.org, post@lespocky.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: Add multicolor PWM LED bindings
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:55:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16e48f33-2a69-ad59-3fd5-f1e25f46e413@svenschwermer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfeLTxVAmwjU6PFr@ada-deb-carambola.ifak-system.com>

Hi,

On 1/31/22 08:10, Alexander Dahl wrote:
>> I know that color curves were being discussed at the time multicolor
>> was being introduced, and AFAIK Pavel didn't like it, but I don't
>> remember the reasons anymore.
>>
>> As far as I understand it though, for PWM LEDs there is an equation for
>> gamma correction.
> 
> That's right, and it gets a little more complicated if you have RGB
> instead of a single LED.  A start for reading might be this:
> 
> https://hackaday.com/2016/08/23/rgb-leds-how-to-master-gamma-and-hue-for-perfect-brightness/
> 
> (I had bookmarked that back when I was hacking on firmware for an 8bit
> microcontroller controlling an RGB LED through soft PWM few years
> ago.  A very simple solution is a precalculated static lookup table.)

This is a very interesting topic which I was gonna ask about on this 
list anyways. IMHO, the Linux leds subsystem needs a uniform way to deal 
with lightness/gamma correction. There is some previous work in pwm_bl 
and led_bl with their `brightness-levels` device tree property and 
cie1931 correction function (drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c). It would 
be very nice to have this functionality in the led class. Having 
something similar for multi-color as well would be fantastic.

Sven

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-26 10:48 [PATCH v3 0/2] Multicolor PWM LED support sven
2022-01-26 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: Add multicolor PWM LED bindings sven
2022-01-27 21:24   ` Jacek Anaszewski
2022-01-28 20:36     ` Marek Behún
2022-01-28 23:04       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2022-01-28 23:26         ` Marek Behún
2022-01-31  7:10           ` Alexander Dahl
2022-01-31  8:55             ` Sven Schwermer [this message]
2022-02-12 11:54         ` Pavel Machek
2022-01-26 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] leds: Add PWM multicolor driver sven
2022-02-02 12:33   ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-02-06  9:17     ` Sven Schwermer
     [not found]       ` <CAHp75VeSD5bYERp=s9Dzd0xScVc+sYSdc8W4XBfCVXJgyWMPyA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-02-06 11:04         ` Sven Schwermer
2022-02-06 12:25           ` Andy Shevchenko

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