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authorBen Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>2012-03-30 13:14:45 +1000
committerBen Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>2012-05-24 16:31:47 +1000
commit78339fb75c21403677f61a02e1839b626a79325b (patch)
tree597405086b8a29379f83ffe3713bfa6c55c493f1 /drivers/gpu
parentc6b7e89582bdb028e1b1763197ff24c77a43e1b0 (diff)
downloadlinux-78339fb75c21403677f61a02e1839b626a79325b.tar.bz2
drm/nouveau/bios: allow loading alternate vbios image as firmware
Useful for debugging different VBIOS versions. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
index 0be4a815e706..524f283263a9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include "nouveau_gpio.h"
#include <linux/io-mapping.h>
+#include <linux/firmware.h>
/* these defines are made up */
#define NV_CIO_CRE_44_HEADA 0x0
@@ -249,8 +250,12 @@ bios_shadow(struct drm_device *dev)
struct drm_nouveau_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
struct nvbios *bios = &dev_priv->vbios;
struct methods *mthd, *best;
+ const struct firmware *fw;
+ char fname[32];
+ int ret;
if (nouveau_vbios) {
+ /* try to match one of the built-in methods */
mthd = shadow_methods;
do {
if (strcasecmp(nouveau_vbios, mthd->desc))
@@ -263,6 +268,22 @@ bios_shadow(struct drm_device *dev)
return true;
} while ((++mthd)->shadow);
+ /* attempt to load firmware image */
+ snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), "nouveau/%s", nouveau_vbios);
+ ret = request_firmware(&fw, fname, &dev->pdev->dev);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ bios->length = fw->size;
+ bios->data = kmemdup(fw->data, fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ release_firmware(fw);
+
+ NV_INFO(dev, "VBIOS image: %s\n", nouveau_vbios);
+ if (score_vbios(bios, 1))
+ return true;
+
+ kfree(bios->data);
+ bios->data = NULL;
+ }
+
NV_ERROR(dev, "VBIOS source \'%s\' invalid\n", nouveau_vbios);
}