[Nouveau] [PATCH 0/5] nouveau: unified firmware loading functions

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> All the video decoding firmware was *pretty* standard... I suspect
>> ~everyone used my extraction script and it's sitting in
>> /lib/firmware/nouveau for everyone who uses VDPAU. There are packages
>> in several distributions which grab the nvidia blob, my script, and
>> run the extraction on the end user's computer to avoid licensing
>> complications. Please support the existing locations.
>
> Ok, so there *are* some end-users (not developers) relying on these
> external firmwares?
>
> In that case probably the best thing to do is to not use these new
> functions for video - at least for chips that do not require signed
> firmware. All I'd like to do is reduce the number of occurences of the
> "build path - load firmware" logic.

Yep. And FWIW there were users of pgraph firmware loading with the old
paths too :( For some users, the blob pgraph fw is stable while
nouveau one isn't. But hopefully not that many, I think VDPAU has a
lot more. VDPAU is currently supported through Kepler.

  -ilia