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    pwm: crc: Fix period / duty_cycle times being off by a factor of 256 · 79e08992
    Hans de Goede authored
    While looking into adding atomic-pwm support to the pwm-crc driver I
    noticed something odd, there is a PWM_BASE_CLK define of 6 MHz and
    there is a clock-divider which divides this with a value between 1-128,
    and there are 256 duty-cycle steps.
    
    The pwm-crc code before this commit assumed that a clock-divider
    setting of 1 means that the PWM output is running at 6 MHZ, if that
    is true, where do these 256 duty-cycle steps come from?
    
    This would require an internal frequency of 256 * 6 MHz = 1.5 GHz, that
    seems unlikely for a PMIC which is using a silicon process optimized for
    power-switching transistors. It is way more likely that there is an 8
    bit counter for the duty cycle which acts as an extra fixed divider
    wrt the PWM output frequency.
    
    The main user of the pwm-crc driver is the i915 GPU driver which uses it
    for backlight control. Lets compare the PWM register values set by the
    video-BIOS (the GOP), assuming the extra fixed divider is present versus
    the PWM frequency specified in the Video-BIOS-Tables:
    
    Device:		PWM Hz set by BIOS	PWM Hz specified in VBT
    Asus T100TA 	200			200
    Asus T100HA 	200			200
    Lenovo Miix 2 8	23437			20000
    Toshiba WT8-A	23437			20000
    
    So as we can see if we assume the extra division by 256 then the register
    values set by the GOP are an exact match for the VBT values, where as
    otherwise the values would be of by a factor of 256.
    
    This commit fixes the period / duty_cycle calculations to take the
    extra division by 256 into account.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarThierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200903112337.4113-9-hdegoede@redhat.com
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