[Nouveau] [PATCH] bios/fan: hardcode the fan mode to linear

[Martin Peres]

On 04/01/16 18:42, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 4 January 2016 at 14:56, Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr> wrote:
>> On 17/12/15 19:18, Martin Peres wrote:
>>> On 29/11/15 16:10, Martin Peres wrote:
>>>> This is an oversight that made use of the trip-point-based fan managenent
>>>> on
>>>> cards that never expose those. This led the fan to stay at fan_min.
>>>>
>>>> Fortunately, the emergency code would kick when the temperature would
>>>> reach
>>>> 90°C.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Tom Englund <tomenglund26 at gmail.com>
>>>> Tested-by: Tom Englund <tomenglund26 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Daemon32 <lnf.purple at gmail.com>
>>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92126
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/fan.c | 1 +
>>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/fan.c
>>>> b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/fan.c
>>>> index 43006db..80fed7e 100644
>>>> --- a/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/fan.c
>>>> +++ b/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/fan.c
>>>> @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ nvbios_fan_parse(struct nvkm_bios *bios, struct
>>>> nvbios_therm_fan *fan)
>>>>                fan->type = NVBIOS_THERM_FAN_UNK;
>>>>            }
>>>>
>>>> +        fan->fan_mode = NVBIOS_THERM_FAN_LINEAR;
>>>>            fan->min_duty = nvbios_rd08(bios, data + 0x02);
>>>>            fan->max_duty = nvbios_rd08(bios, data + 0x03);
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ben, can you merge this patch? It is kind of critical :s And it should be
>>> CCed to stable too, without it, some kepler/maxwell get 0% fan power which
>>> is kind of dangerous, even without reclocking!
>>
>> Ping, this is really important :s
>>
> Not sure who picked it up, but it seems to be in the latest fixes batch [1].
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-December/097589.html

Thanks Emil, Karol pointed it out to me on IRC too. Thanks to whoever 
picked it up :)