Re: GeForce 4xx/Fermi to Quadro Modifying Quide

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 04:49:19PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:43:03 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 04:39:26PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> >>On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:26:44 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> >><konrad@darnok.org> wrote:
> >>>>> From what I can see there are several variants of the GTX460,
> >>>>> some with the GF104 GPU, others with the GF114 GPU. There is no
> >>>>> Quadro based on the GF114, but there are two mobile Quadro
> >>>>> variants based on it: Q3000M and Q4000M.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The GTX460 variants have the following device IDs:
> >>>>> GeForce GTX 460		0x0E22
> >>>>
> >>>>That is the one!
> >>>>
> >>>>> GeForce GTX 460 SE	0x0E23
> >>>>> GeForce GTX 460		0x0E24
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The corresponding Quadros have IDs:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Quadro 3000M	0x0E3A
> >>>>> Quadro 4000M	0x0E3B
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So you _should_ be able to modify your card into one of those,
> >>>>> since the adjustment range is within the bottom 5 bits of the
> >>>>> device ID and the GPU itself is the same.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Q4000M looks like a closer match. I'd say it's certainly
> >>>>> worth a try. :)
> >>>
> >>>Success! My desktop machine now sports an Q4000M. It went
> >>>flawless - with most of the time spent on double-checking
> >>>the computations.
> >>
> >>Splendid! Is this a Linux or Windows machine (or do you dual
> >>boot it)?
> >
> >This was Windows 7.
> 
> If the Nvidia driver detected it as a Quadro and installed
> itself without problems, that is indeed a very good sign.

I am quite happy to report that it works with Windows 7 (32-bit).

What is interesting is that it works nicely with SeaBIOS (couldn't
the old BOCHS BIOS one to do PCI passthrough?). SeaBIOS does not
yet support PCI hotplug so I had to define the PCI entries in the
guest config, which means it was:

[root@phenom konrad]# cat /root/Win7.xm | grep -v \#
builder='hvm'
memory = 2048
name = "Windows7"
vcpus=2
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:0F:4B:00:00:65,bridge=switch' ]
disk=[ 'phy:/dev/vg_private/Win7,hda,w']
vnc=1
videoram=8
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
vncpasswd=''
stdvga=0
usb=1
usb_add="host:045e:0039"
usbdevice='tablet'
pci=['05:00.0','05:00.1']

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF104GLM [Quadro 4000M] (rev a1)
05:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)


Linux on the other hand is more troublesome. This is with Fedora 20:

(nouveau kernel driver looks OK)

[    30.747] (EE)
[    30.747] (EE) Backtrace:
[    30.749] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (OsLookupColor+0x129) [0x473899]
[    30.749] (EE) 1: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (__restore_rt+0x0) [0x3504e0f74f]
[    30.750] (EE) 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86ProbeOutputModes+0x9c1) [0x4c3511]
[    30.750] (EE) 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PruneDuplicateModes+0x152c) [0x4cdbdc]
[    30.750] (EE) 4: /usr/bin/Xorg (RRGetInfo+0x9c) [0x50f4dc]
[    30.750] (EE) 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (ProcRRGetProviderProperty+0x1129) [0x517069]
[    30.750] (EE) 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (SendErrorToClient+0x427) [0x43a3d7]
[    30.752] (EE) 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (_init+0x3b1a) [0x42c02a]
[    30.752] (EE) 8: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x3504621d65]
[    30.752] (EE) 9: /usr/bin/Xorg (_start+0x29) [0x428c45]
[    30.753] (EE) 10: ? (?+0x29) [0x29]
[    30.753] (EE)
[    30.753] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x200000000000
[    30.753] (EE)

(so using nouveau)

And with Ubuntu 12.10 with Nvidia driver:  304.88-0ubuntu0.1 

[  859.790255] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[  859.790259] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[  859.813635] xen: --> pirq=20 -> irq=36 (gsi=36)
[  859.813705] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:05.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[  859.813707] vgaarb: transferring owner from PCI:0000:00:05.0 to PCI:0000:00:03.0
[  859.813874] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  304.88  Wed Mar 27 14:26:46 PDT 2013

it looks to be OK, but Xorg.0.log says:

[  1028.381] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  304.88  Wed Mar 27 14:46:57 PDT 2013
[  1028.381] Loading extension GLX
[  1028.381] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[  1028.381] (II) Loading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[  1028.382] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[  1028.382]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  1028.382]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[  1028.411] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  304.88  Wed Mar 27 14:28:14 PDT 2013
[  1028.411] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[  1028.411] (++) using VT number 7

[  1028.421] (EE) No devices detected.