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Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG

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On Wed 2017-03-29 12:07:25, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 28 Mar 19:17 PDT 2017, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > > The Light Pulse Generator (LPG) is a PWM-block found in a wide range of
> > > > PMICs from Qualcomm. It can operate on fixed parameters or based on a
> > > > lookup-table, altering the duty cycle over time - which provides the
> > > > means for e.g. hardware assisted transitions of LED brightness.
> > > 
> > > Ok, this is not first hardware that supports something like this. We
> > > have similar hardware that can do blinking on Nokia N900 -- please
> > > take a look at leds-lp55*.c
> > 
> > And perhaps some alignment on the bindings too if the N900 has bindings.
> > 
> 
> There is a binding for ti,lp55xx, but there's nothing I can reuse from
> that binding...because it's completely different hardware.

Agreed, if you drop the pattern stuff from the binding, at least for now. 

> > > And it would be really good to provide hardware abstraction. We really
> > > don't want to have different userspace for LPG and for N900 and for
> > 
> > I'm interested in what this looks like as several AOSP platforms do 
> > tri-color LEDs with custom sysfs extensions.
> 
> How to model RGB LEDs has been discussed many times before and I was
> hoping for that discussion to come to some conclusion during the last 2
> years, but now I couldn't wait more - we need this driver for
> db820c.

If you want driver merged quickly, I believe the best way would be to
leave out pattern support for now. We can merge the basic driver
easily to 4.12.

> With this driver, as with many existing, you will have 3 LEDs that you
> set independently.
> 
> I did implement blinking by using the PWM straight off, so you can't set
> brightness or synchronize the multiple channels. Perhaps this should be
> changed to use the ramp generator.
> 
> To synchronize patterns I suggest that we extend the LUT binding to
> describe groups and when any LPG trigger a restart of the pattern-walker
> we trigger all that are grouped.
> 
> These two changes combined allows you to set brightness and blink with a
> RGB-LED.
> 
> 
> But I will have to dig up some hardware that uses the LPG for driving a
> RGB-LED to be able to test this (and I do prefer that to be done with
> some incremental patches at some later time, if acceptable).

Incremental patches sound like a good idea, yes.

I'd say that testing with actual RGB LED is not a requirement... as
long as we design reasonable interface where the synchronizaction will
be easy.

Thanks and best regards,

									Pavel
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-03-29 04:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-03-29 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-30 00:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-03-30 02:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-30 09:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 11:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 15:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-04-03 20:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-04-03 22:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-10 12:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-04-03 21:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-04-03 22:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-04-07 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-08 12:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-08 15:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-04-09 14:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 15:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-04-07 22:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-08 11:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-07 15:00 +0200

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