[Nouveau] [PATCH 4/4] vbios/prom: fetch the vbios using only aligned 32-bit accesses

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Tue Mar 25 15:37:57 PDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr> wrote:
> On 25/03/2014 23:24, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Other kind of accesses are unreliable on Maxwell cards. As advised by
>>> NVIDIA,
>>
>> Maxwell or Kepler?
>
>
> Damn, I meant Kepler.
>
> I updated the patch in my git tree:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mperes/nouveau/commit/?id=661a5c599565686f72e729600b0dd6aa6e472f0c
>
>>
>>> let's only use 32-bit accesses to fetch the vbios from PROM.
>>>
>>> This fixes vbios fetching on my nve7 which failed in certain specific
>>> conditions.
>>>
>>> I suggest we Cc stable, for all kernels they still maintain after the big
>>> rewrite.
>>
>> Just throw in the Cc :) Easier to just have it there than to have to
>> go in and edit the commit description to remove this comment and add
>> the Cc line...
>
>
> I don't want git send-email to send an email to stable, the patch won't
> apply on any kernel.
>

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