As I suggested a while back, radeon really doesn't work without firmware
on some chips.
Ben.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Gregs git-bot <greg@kroah.com>
To: greg@kroah.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Patch Upstream: drm/radeon/kms: bail on BTC parts if MC ucode is missing
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:20:53 -0500 (EST)
commit: 77e00f2ea94abee1ad13bdfde19cf7aa25992b0e
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:58:17 -0500
Subject: drm/radeon/kms: bail on BTC parts if MC ucode is missing
We already do this for cayman, need to also do it for
BTC parts. The default memory and voltage setup is not
adequate for advanced operation. Continuing will
result in an unusable display.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
index 5e00d16..92c9628 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
@@ -3276,6 +3276,18 @@ int evergreen_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)
rdev->accel_working = false;
}
}
+
+ /* Don't start up if the MC ucode is missing on BTC parts.
+ * The default clocks and voltages before the MC ucode
+ * is loaded are not suffient for advanced operations.
+ */
+ if (ASIC_IS_DCE5(rdev)) {
+ if (!rdev->mc_fw && !(rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_IGP)) {
+ DRM_ERROR("radeon: MC ucode required for NI+.
");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+
return 0;
}
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1.7.3.4
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