[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/5] drm/i915: Notify user about outdated dmc firmware

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> If csr/dmc firmware is known to be outdated, notify
> user.

What would break if we requested a firmware version that works? Or we've
made it so that we only request the major version because there's not
supposed to be changes like this between minor versions...?

BR,
Jani.



>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c
> index 58edc3f..73807c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_csr.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
>  
>  MODULE_FIRMWARE(I915_CSR_SKL);
>  
> +#define RECOMMENDED_FW_MAJOR		1
> +#define RECOMMENDED_FW_MINOR		21
> +
>  /*
>  * SKL CSR registers for DC5 and DC6
>  */
> @@ -387,6 +390,12 @@ static void finish_csr_load(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)
>  
>  	DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Finished loading %s v%u.%u\n", dev_priv->csr.fw_path,
>  		      csr->dmc_ver_major, csr->dmc_ver_minor);
> +
> +	if (csr->dmc_ver_major < RECOMMENDED_FW_MAJOR ||
> +	    csr->dmc_ver_minor < RECOMMENDED_FW_MINOR)
> +		DRM_INFO("Outdated dmc firmware found, please upgrade to %u.%u or newer\n",
> +			 RECOMMENDED_FW_MAJOR, RECOMMENDED_FW_MINOR);
> +
>  out:
>  	if (fw_loaded)
>  		intel_runtime_pm_put(dev_priv);
> -- 
> 2.1.4
>
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center