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Commit a3d0b121 authored by Ilia Mirkin's avatar Ilia Mirkin Committed by Ben Skeggs
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drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi

There appear to be a crop of new hardware where the vbios is not
available from PROM/PRAMIN, but there is a valid _ROM method in ACPI.
The data read from PCIROM almost invariably contains invalid
instructions (still has the x86 opcodes), which makes this a low-risk
way to try to obtain a valid vbios image.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76475


Signed-off-by: default avatarIlia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.35+
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
parent 40189b0c
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