linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 45/92] drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi

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Message-ID: <lsq.1402104389.1700776@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:26:29 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Ilia Mirkin" <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>,
	"Ben Skeggs" <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 45/92] drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to
 load vbios from acpi

3.2.60-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>

commit a3d0b1218d351c6e6f3cea36abe22236a08cb246 upstream.

There appear to be a crop of new hardware where the vbios is not
available from PROM/PRAMIN, but there is a valid _ROM method in ACPI.
The data read from PCIROM almost invariably contains invalid
instructions (still has the x86 opcodes), which makes this a low-risk
way to try to obtain a valid vbios image.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76475
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
@@ -332,9 +332,6 @@ bool nouveau_acpi_rom_supported(struct p
 	acpi_status status;
 	acpi_handle dhandle, rom_handle;
 
-	if (!nouveau_dsm_priv.dsm_detected && !nouveau_dsm_priv.optimus_detected)
-		return false;
-
 	dhandle = DEVICE_ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
 	if (!dhandle)
 		return false;

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