[Nouveau] [PATCH 1/6] gr: support for NVIDIA-provided firmwares

[Ilia Mirkin]

Why did you change request_firmware to request_firmware_direct?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com> wrote:
> NVIDIA will officially start providing signed firmwares through
> linux-firmware. Change the GR firmware lookup function to look them up
> in addition to the extracted firmwares.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c
> index ca11ddb..39d482f 100644
> --- a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c
> +++ b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c
> @@ -1544,26 +1544,62 @@ gf100_gr_dtor_fw(struct gf100_gr_fuc *fuc)
>         fuc->data = NULL;
>  }
>
> +/**
> + * gf100_gr_ctor_fw - helper for loading external GR firmwares
> + *
> + * A firmware can either be officially provided by NVIDIA (in which case it will
> + * use a "NVIDIA name", or be extracted from the binary blob (and use a
> + * "Nouveau name". The fwname and nvfwname are to be given the Nouveau and
> + * NVIDIA names of a given firmware, respectively. This function will then
> + * try to load the NVIDIA firmware, then the extracted one, in that order.
> + *
> + */
>  int
>  gf100_gr_ctor_fw(struct gf100_gr_priv *priv, const char *fwname,
> -                struct gf100_gr_fuc *fuc)
> +                const char *nvfwname, struct gf100_gr_fuc *fuc)
>  {
>         struct nvkm_device *device = nv_device(priv);
>         const struct firmware *fw;
> -       char f[32];
> -       int ret;
> +       char f[64];
> +       int ret = -EINVAL;
> +       int i;
>
> -       snprintf(f, sizeof(f), "nouveau/nv%02x_%s", device->chipset, fwname);
> -       ret = request_firmware(&fw, f, nv_device_base(device));
> -       if (ret) {
> -               snprintf(f, sizeof(f), "nouveau/%s", fwname);
> -               ret = request_firmware(&fw, f, nv_device_base(device));
> -               if (ret) {
> -                       nv_error(priv, "failed to load %s\n", fwname);
> -                       return ret;
> +       /*
> +        * NVIDIA firmware name provided - try to load it
> +        * We try this first since most chips that require external firmware
> +        * are supported by NVIDIA
> +        */
> +       if (nvfwname) {
> +               snprintf(f, sizeof(f), "nvidia/%s/%s.bin", device->cname,
> +                        nvfwname);
> +               i = strlen(f);
> +               while (i) {
> +                       --i;
> +                       f[i] = tolower(f[i]);
>                 }
> +               ret = request_firmware_direct(&fw, f, nv_device_base(device));
> +               if (!ret)
> +                       goto found;
> +       }
> +
> +       /* Nouveau firmware name provided - try to load it */
> +       if (fwname) {
> +               snprintf(f, sizeof(f), "nouveau/nv%02x_%s", device->chipset,
> +                        fwname);
> +               ret = request_firmware_direct(&fw, f, nv_device_base(device));
> +               if (!ret)
> +                       goto found;
> +
> +               snprintf(f, sizeof(f), "nouveau/%s", fwname);
> +               ret = request_firmware_direct(&fw, f, nv_device_base(device));
> +               if (!ret)
> +                       goto found;
>         }
>
> +       nv_error(priv, "failed to load %s / %s\n", fwname, nvfwname);
> +       return ret;
> +
> +found:
>         fuc->size = fw->size;
>         fuc->data = kmemdup(fw->data, fuc->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>         release_firmware(fw);
> @@ -1615,10 +1651,10 @@ gf100_gr_ctor(struct nvkm_object *parent, struct nvkm_object *engine,
>
>         if (use_ext_fw) {
>                 nv_info(priv, "using external firmware\n");
> -               if (gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc409c", &priv->fuc409c) ||
> -                   gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc409d", &priv->fuc409d) ||
> -                   gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc41ac", &priv->fuc41ac) ||
> -                   gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc41ad", &priv->fuc41ad))
> +               if (gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc409c", "fecs_inst", &priv->fuc409c) ||
> +                   gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc409d", "fecs_data", &priv->fuc409d) ||
> +                   gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc41ac", "gpccs_inst", &priv->fuc41ac) ||
> +                   gf100_gr_ctor_fw(priv, "fuc41ad", "gpccs_data", &priv->fuc41ad))
>                         return -ENODEV;
>                 priv->firmware = true;
>         }
> --
> 2.4.3
>
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