[Nouveau] [PATCH v2] nouveau: arm: Add MODULE_FIRMWARE for gk20a

Alexandre Courbot gnurou at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 04:53:50 PST 2015


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-09-30 6:57 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > This patch is needed by initramfs tools to detect
>> > the required firmware files for the module.
>> >
>> > This patch tests for either TEGRA_124_SOC or TEGRA_132_SOC
>> > for the firmwares related to the Tegra K1 generation.
>> >
>> > v2: move the MODULE_FIRMWARE to the nvidia_platform.c file.
>> >  This will avoid to test for NOUVEAU_PLATFORM_DRIVER
>>
>> Nice, thanks for doing this change!
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
>
>
> Thx for the review.
> FYI I've tested the patch on top of 4.3+ kernels, and the initramfs
> generated with dracut works as expected.
>
> Is there any other concern with this patch ?
>
> It's certainly late for 4.4,I would expect it to hit kernel 4.3 at some
> point, but I don't think everything is wired from userspace(Xorg/Wayland)
> wrt dGPU support.
> So It could also wait for 4.5.
> What do you think ?

I don't see a particular reason to hurry, however this patch has been
sitting around for one month now - Ben, is there any particular reason
for not merging it?


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