[PATCH 3.4 060/214] drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-05T05:00:15Z

From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.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@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
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
@@ -375,9 +375,6 @@ 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;