[Nouveau] [PATCH v3 6/9] drm/nouveau/graph: enable when using external firmware

Alexandre Courbot gnurou at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 21:53:58 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Ben Skeggs <skeggsb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> nvc0_graph_ctor() would only let the graphics engine be enabled if its
>> oclass has a proper microcode linked to it. This prevents GR from being
>> enabled at all on chips that rely exclusively on external firmware, even
>> though such a use-case is valid.
>>
>> Relax the conditions enabling the GR engine to also include the case
>> where an external firmware has also been loaded.
> I'm happy to take this patch as-is.  I do wonder if we should do
> something like this though:
>
> if (nouveau_boolopt(device->cfgopt, "NvGrUseFW", oclass->fecs.ucode == NULL))
>
> Which will automatically switch to external firmware if there's no
> internal implementation available.
>
> Thoughts?  This could be a separate patch even, if preferred.

Sure, that should work. Do you mind if I come with a follow-up patch
for this so I don't have to re-sent the current patch series? Since
this is the only comment it received so far.

Thanks,
Alex.


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