[PATCH] radeon: acquire BIOS via firmware subsystem if everything else failed

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Nov 25 09:25:50 PST 2014


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:14:21PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> The vbios image is available via ACPI prior to the OS taking over.
> IIRC, Matthew Garret fixed up the bootloader to fetch the vbios image
> prior to loading Linux so that it could be accessed after the OS
> loaded.

EFI rather than ACPI, but yeah. In theory this should work fine if 
you're using the EFI entry point. I don't know whether the patches for 
linuxefi were ever accepted by grub upstream - if not, pushing those 
would make more sense.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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