[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

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

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From f1dddec903a28aec5c738276bc4fe32c43cacf90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:37:21 -0400
Subject: 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 at alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
index ba0183f..d3c7646 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
@@ -423,9 +423,6 @@ 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 = ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
 	if (!dhandle)
 		return false;
--
1.9.1