On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 10:46:08 +0100, Peter Hessler wrote:
> On 2017 Feb 10 (Fri) at 11:52:20 +1100 (+1100), Jonathan Gray wrote:
> :On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:39:13PM -0600, joshua stein wrote:
> :> I have no idea why there are chickens involved, but this fixes the
> :> problem on at least the MacBookAir7,1 (Broadwell) where upon S3
> :> resume, the backlight value is treated as 0 or 100 despite reporting
> :> intermediate values, so if the backlight value was anything other
> :> than 100 at suspend time, the screen will stay off upon resume.
> :
> :Chicken bits are overrides for functions like clock gating, if it turns
> :out there is a hardware bug in a particular feature these bits are used
> :to disable them.
> :
> :This diff seems reasonable but it would be nice to get some tests
> :on non-apple broadwell hardware.
> :
> 
> Tested on a broadwell Thinkpad x250, seems fine.  Changed the brightness
> to 40%, then did a few suspend-resumes.

Anyone else have any reports testing this diff?

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