From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946788AbcBRREF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:04:05 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f179.google.com ([209.85.223.179]:34693 "EHLO mail-io0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946303AbcBRREC (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:04:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [4.5-rc regression] drm radeon Tahiti_vce fails to load To: "Deucher, Alexander" , LKML Cc: "Koenig, Christian" References: <56C5BEC7.9070606@gmail.com> From: Woody Suwalski Message-ID: <56C5F9B2.7060508@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:04:50 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Deucher, Alexander wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Woody Suwalski [mailto:terraluna977@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 7:53 AM >> To: LKML >> Cc: Deucher, Alexander; Koenig, Christian >> Subject: [4.5-rc regression] drm radeon Tahiti_vce fails to load >> >> Alex, the 4.5-rc 32-bit kernels seem to have a problem initializing VCE. >> The drm.debug boot option does not show more info as to what the problem >> is. >> On 4.4 (tested with 4.4.1 and 4.4.2) kernels it is loading OK. >> >> I have confirmed the regression on 4.5-rc2 and 4.5-rc4 kernels. > [ 1.051686] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Requesting firmware: radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin > [ 1.051856] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin failed with error -2 > [ 1.051858] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon_vce: Can't load firmware "radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin" > > > You did not include the vce firmware image in your kernel image. Please make sure to include the firmware image in your kernel image if you are building it in or if you are using an initrd, please make sure the firmware image is in your initrd. > > Alex > You are right - somehow the TAHITI_vce.bin got omitted from the kernel's .config. The Radeon included firmware line is now close to 3400 long, and growing... Will there be a better way to manage these firmware blobs (a rhetorical question)... Thanks, Woody