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authorIlia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>2014-03-26 19:37:21 -0400
committerShow Liu <show.liu@linaro.org>2014-06-18 12:04:47 +0800
commitcbc9f24d094692aa17c3d7b5da74da44cac274c2 (patch)
treea8b3297ae11ab6ac5f8b3b11b4c52c5f6980a963 /drivers/gpu
parent88cd8723779711ffb5b09fd00e19d63188ae18c9 (diff)
drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
index 83face3f608..279206997e5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
@@ -389,9 +389,6 @@ bool nouveau_acpi_rom_supported(struct pci_dev *pdev)
acpi_status status;
acpi_handle dhandle, rom_handle;
- if (!nouveau_dsm_priv.dsm_detected && !nouveau_dsm_priv.optimus_detected)
- return false;
-
dhandle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
if (!dhandle)
return false;