[Nouveau] [Bug 91779] Pure EFI: MacBookPro3, 1 (NV84) fails to load nouveau on linux 4.1 -- Invalid ROM contents

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91779

--- Comment #6 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
(In reply to Jeremy Huddleston from comment #5)
> Thanks Ilia,
> 
> I think the most pressing issue here is to get users a working fb when they
> boot in such a configuration (eg: Ubuntu's and Fedora's recent live cds). 
> Can we use this bug to track updating the nouveau kernel module to not take
> away the fb until it has guaranteed that it can be used for the fb?

Bug id's are cheap, I'd file a new one, but that's me. If you feel like the
quantity of integers is quickly running out, feel free to reuse this one, just
update the subject.

> As an aside, I reconfigured for BIOS-emulation and have nouveau loading fine
> here.  I'd like to get back to pure EFI, so is there an easy way to have
> nouveau dump the firmware to disk for my use in EFI mode?  Is it exported in
> /sys somewhere?

/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vbios.rom

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