On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Wilfried Klaebe w-lkml@lebenslange-mailadresse.de wrote:
At least Apple's MacBook Pro 8,2 booting EFI -> GRUB2 -> Linux (without BIOS emulation) seems to have no Radeon BIOS accessible via conventional means. Loading one via firmware system previously dumped (with "dd if=/dev/mem of=/lib/firmware/radeon/vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1") when booted with BIOS emulation works. I carry this patch around since about 3.8 and never had any problems, not even with several dozen cycles of suspend2ram and resume. Also, I tested every new release if this patch was still necessary, and it always was.
Thanks to Stefan Dösinger and others at https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26891
Signed-off-by: Wilfried Klaebe w-lkml@lebenslange-mailadresse.de
NACK. This mac specific and is not something I want to support in radeon.
The vbios image is available via ACPI prior to the OS taking over. IIRC, Matthew Garret fixed up the bootloader to fetch the vbios image prior to loading Linux so that it could be accessed after the OS loaded.
Alex
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c index 63ccb8f..cf55e0e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include "radeon_reg.h" #include "radeon.h" #include "atom.h" +#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include <linux/vga_switcheroo.h> #include <linux/slab.h> @@ -74,6 +75,44 @@ static bool igp_read_bios_from_vram(struct radeon_device *rdev) return true; }
+static bool radeon_read_bios_from_firmware(struct radeon_device *rdev) +{
const uint8_t __iomem *bios;resource_size_t size;const struct firmware *fw = NULL;char *err = NULL;request_firmware(&fw, "radeon/vbios.bin", rdev->dev);if (!fw) {err = "firmware request returned NULL\n";goto out;}size = fw->size;bios = fw->data;if (size == 0 || !bios) {err = "firmware request returned zero sized or NULL data\n";goto out;}if (bios[0] != 0x55 || bios[1] != 0xaa) {err = "wrong signature on firmware\n";goto out;}rdev->bios = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);if (rdev->bios == NULL) {err = "failed to kmalloc() memory for firmware\n";goto out;}memcpy(rdev->bios, bios, size);+out:
if (err)DRM_ERROR(err);if (fw)release_firmware(fw);return !err;+}
static bool radeon_read_bios(struct radeon_device *rdev) { uint8_t __iomem *bios; @@ -662,6 +701,8 @@ bool radeon_get_bios(struct radeon_device *rdev) r = radeon_read_disabled_bios(rdev); if (r == false) r = radeon_read_platform_bios(rdev);
if (r == false)r = radeon_read_bios_from_firmware(rdev); if (r == false || rdev->bios == NULL) { DRM_ERROR("Unable to locate a BIOS ROM\n"); rdev->bios = NULL;
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