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Title:
  Internal display backlight not working on a Intel Apollolake based
  tablet

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,

  Problem:
  With current kernels (both Ubuntu kernels and mainline kernels) the display 
backlight in one of our tablet variants does not work because i915 GFX driver 
lacks support for I2C transfers from display initialization VBT sequences and 
the backlight driver is left uninitialized.

  Ubuntu version:
  Ubuntu 20.04 daily build (downloaded on 2020-01-20)

  Device:
  Aava Mobile Inari10B tablet (Intel Apollolake platform)

  Existing fixes:
  Intel has implement a kernel fix for this problem and it is currently on its 
way to 5.6 kernel 
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dsi_vbt.c?h=next-20200129&id=8cbf89db294166cc13d90a89422605e0c9f8bbc2).
 Unfortunately that change is not working correctly as-is, further fix is 
currently in drm-intel-next-queued 
(https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel/commit/?id=de409661c4c90d63cfc64579edbad0a6b10bd50d),
 which should also end up in 5.6 kernel because it has a fixes tag referring to 
the initial fix commit.

  Background information:
  Our company produces Intel Apollolake based tablets and some of our customers 
would like to use Ubuntu as the OS. Optimal situation would be that we could 
recommend Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release to our customers.
  Since I was unable to find conclusive information regarding which kernel 
version is going to end up in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release, I decided to open this 
bug to resolve if and how the fix for backlight problem could get included in 
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release in it's first version.

  BR,
  Mikko Kovanen

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: linux-image-5.4.0-9-generic 5.4.0-9.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-9.12-generic 5.4.3
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  ubuntu     1708 F.... pulseaudio
  CasperVersion: 1.438
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Jan 30 07:30:24 2020
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200124)
  MachineType: OEM ApolloLake
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz 
file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed quiet splash ---
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-5.4.0-9-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-5.4.0-9-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                           1.184
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/11/2019
  dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE Corp.
  dmi.bios.version: W-02.52
  dmi.board.asset.tag: NA
  dmi.board.name: NA
  dmi.board.vendor: OEM
  dmi.board.version: NA
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: NA
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: OEM
  dmi.chassis.version: NA
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnINSYDECorp.:bvrW-02.52:bd12/11/2019:svnOEM:pnApolloLake:pvrNA:rvnOEM:rnNA:rvrNA:cvnOEM:ct10:cvrNA:
  dmi.product.family: Apollolake
  dmi.product.name: ApolloLake
  dmi.product.sku: 0
  dmi.product.version: NA
  dmi.sys.vendor: OEM

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