drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi

commit a3d0b1218d351c6e6f3cea36abe22236a08cb246 upstream.

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: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
index 3df56c7c692f1da37c648dc59734d751deb584d4..5ee8cca9ee6c46436eb98f33c23e1843be564302 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
@@ -332,9 +332,6 @@ bool nouveau_acpi_rom_supported(struct pci_dev *pdev)
        acpi_status status;
        acpi_handle dhandle, rom_handle;
 
-       if (!nouveau_dsm_priv.dsm_detected && !nouveau_dsm_priv.optimus_detected)
-               return false;
-
        dhandle = DEVICE_ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
        if (!dhandle)
                return false;