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 at alum.mit.edu> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.35+ --- Not sure if the stable CC is warranted... it's technically not a regression. But it's a simple change that enables hardware to work. Patrick/Claas -- please test this out (if you're applying this to a linux tree, you'll have to do it manually, but it should be fairly obvious where this should apply). drm/nouveau_acpi.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drm/nouveau_acpi.c b/drm/nouveau_acpi.c index 83face3..2792069 100644 --- a/drm/nouveau_acpi.c +++ b/drm/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; -- 1.8.3.2
