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| author | Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> | 2014-03-27 00:37:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> | 2014-05-02 08:24:52 +0200 |
| commit | a3d0b1218d351c6e6f3cea36abe22236a08cb246 (patch) | |
| tree | a430656643c44a3cf65be966d4625e2f41fdea24 /drivers/misc | |
| parent | drm/nouveau: fix missing newline (diff) | |
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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=76475
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.35+
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
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