Commit a3d0b121 authored by Ilia Mirkin's avatar Ilia Mirkin Committed by Ben Skeggs

drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi

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=76475Signed-off-by: default avatarIlia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.35+
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
parent 40189b0c
...@@ -389,9 +389,6 @@ bool nouveau_acpi_rom_supported(struct pci_dev *pdev) ...@@ -389,9 +389,6 @@ bool nouveau_acpi_rom_supported(struct pci_dev *pdev)
acpi_status status; acpi_status status;
acpi_handle dhandle, rom_handle; acpi_handle dhandle, rom_handle;
if (!nouveau_dsm_priv.dsm_detected && !nouveau_dsm_priv.optimus_detected)
return false;
dhandle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev); dhandle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
if (!dhandle) if (!dhandle)
return false; return false;
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