"radeon: error initializing UVD" in kernel 3.10 on hybrid laptop with CEDAR / R600

Tue Jul 2 13:15:08 PDT 2013

Alex Deucher wrote, on 07/02/2013 21:46:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de> wrote:
>> With self-compiled linux 3.10 on a HP Pavilion dv7 with hybrid graphics (ATI
>> RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] / ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400
>> Series]) uvd seems to be broken.
>>
>> The new firware files are installed in /lib/firmware/radeon:
>>
>> sha1 hashes
>> 3142a64061ade6032c95ed948c85b15dd0ae46be  CEDAR_me.bin
>> a92856a4fa16926e2451a6335da7e20f01fde210  CEDAR_pfp.bin
>> 644b29756636687ad31a49da4aa3ed85dcedecdb  CEDAR_rlc.bin
>> 992d49518d3936986b5ce3ddb0d9bbd75135bb8f  CYPRESS_uvd.bin
>> 3e04529600d666ddb2f2f83bb0112d4fab516c04  R600_rlc.bin
>>
>> The system boots without initial ram disk.
> 
> Make sure your system is using the latest CEDAR_rlc.bin as well.
> 
> Alex
> 
Thanks for the hint, Alex. Actually I took the files today from your repository
at http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ and checked them against
the ones downloaded from
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git .

Regards,
Jörg-Volker.

> 
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