[Nouveau] Nouveau Fermi Firmware

[Ben Skeggs]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 22:59 -0700, christopher bradski wrote:
> I have a GTS 450 and love the way nouveau runs in 2d, I was looking to
> test 3D and have extracted most of the firmware from the Nvidia blob. 
If you grab the kernel from nouveau git, this should be unnecessary for
your chipset now.

>  Is f841a1c4 the correct register to retrieve the fuc41ad firmware
> file? When I try the following:
> 
> # insert correct register in next line
> grep f841a1c4 ../mydump.txt \
> | awk '{print $6}' | grep -oP '(?<=0x).*' | \
>         python -c \
> "
> import struct; import sys; fd = open(\"fuc41ad\", \"wb\");
> for line in sys.stdin:
>         fd.write(struct.pack(\"@I\", int(line.rstrip(), 16)))
> "
> It results in the fuc41ad file being written as a text file with the
> date Feb 12 2011 ? Is this correct? All three other firmware files are
> written as binary files... I know a bit of python and bash but am
> drawing a blank on this. 
Have you had a look at the trace itself and made sure there was more
than a couple of writes to 0x41a1c4?  The NVIDIA fuc blobs usually start
with a date string embedded in them, perhaps your trace was incomplete?

Ben.
> 
> Thank you all in advance for any help. Much appreciated. 
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