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backlight rework: Condat light driver accepts levels
The present change is another intermediate step on the path toward
new FreeCalypso backlight handling. At this intermediate step the
Condat light driver accepts 0-255 backlight levels driven by MFW,
and puts them out on PWL on Luna development boards. At the same
time on C139 it is now possible to turn on the display backlight
with or without the keypad bl - the lsb of the 0-255 backlight level
controls the keypad bl.
MFW presently drives only 0 and 255 backlight levels, thus there is
no visible behavioral change yet - but the plan for subsequent stages
of this backlight rework is to add a dimmed backlight state
(no keypad bl on C139) during active calls.
| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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| date | Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:44:04 +0000 |
| parents | a62e5bf88434 |
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FreeCalypso Luna phone handset UI development platform consists of these 3 components: * A Caramel-type Calypso motherboard, either iWOW DSK or FC Caramel2 * An LCD carrier board, currently using HaoRan HT020K1QC36S LCD module * A 5x5 keyswitch matrix board for the keypad function This Luna is our primary official platform for FreeCalypso phone handset UI development. The UI code we got from TI comes in two interesting versions: * Big color version: 176x220 pixels, 16-bit color * Small B&W version: originally 84x48 pixels, we are extending it to 96x64 pix (Originally there was also a third version, large 176x220 pix B&W, but we find it uninteresting and we've removed it from our supported set. It was really nothing more than a hack to display a minimal-effort derivative of the original small B&W UI on the large D-Sample LCD, so we are not removing anything of any real substance here.) FC Luna hardware is required for anyone who wishes to work on the phone handset UI project in FC Tourmaline: it is the only target platform that can display both versions of our work-in-progress UI firmware. Mot C1xx and other similar phones have small LCDs that can only display the small B&W version of our TI-based UI, and in the Mother's opinion working solely on the smallbw version to the exclusion of the bigcolor version is not acceptable.