From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Peres Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] vbios/prom: fetch the vbios using only aligned 32-bit accesses Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:30:17 +0100 Message-ID: <53320379.7080604@free.fr> References: <1395785480-2932-1-git-send-email-martin.peres@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Sender: "Nouveau" To: Ilia Mirkin Cc: "nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org" List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On 25/03/2014 23:24, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Martin Peres wrote: >> Other kind of accesses are unreliable on Maxwell cards. As advised by NVIDIA, > Maxwell or Kepler? Damn, I meant Kepler. I updated the patch in my git tree: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mperes/nouveau/commit/?id=661a5c599565686f72e729600b0dd6aa6e472f0c > >> let's only use 32-bit accesses to fetch the vbios from PROM. >> >> This fixes vbios fetching on my nve7 which failed in certain specific >> conditions. >> >> I suggest we Cc stable, for all kernels they still maintain after the big >> rewrite. > Just throw in the Cc :) Easier to just have it there than to have to > go in and edit the commit description to remove this comment and add > the Cc line... I don't want git send-email to send an email to stable, the patch won't apply on any kernel.