On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> As you're well-aware, your commit >> 8539b37acef73949861a16808b60cb8b5b9b3bab (drm/nouveau/gr: use >> NVIDIA-provided external firmwares) broke tons of existing setups for >> people who were using extracted firmware files (stored in the >> "nouveau" firmware directory) as a result of nouveau's ctxsw fw being >> ... lacking. This is especially common on GK106's for some reason. >> >> The arguments for doing this at the time was that (a) all the bugs in >> nouveau's fw have been fixed and thus those people don't need to be >> using those extracted firmware files and (b) NVIDIA was going to >> release firmware and so things would Just Work (tm) since the new >> files would be at the new locations. >> >> Neither of these have come to fruition. Plenty of people still have >> GK106's that don't work well with nouveau's fw. NVIDIA has shown no >> interest in releasing firmware in a redistributable fashion. >> >> Can you please create a patch to fix this up so that it still tries to >> load files from the previous location with the previous names so that >> people's previously-working setups can keep on working? > > Certainly. Actually my first version of 8539b37acef7 did fall back to > the original paths for loading firmware, but Ben suggested that we > just replace the paths entirely, hence the version currently merged: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-June/084914.html > > Ben, do you agree with falling back to the old "nouveau/nvxx_fucxxxx" > firmware names so people don't need to move their firmware files > around? The theory was that the nouveau fw was going to be sufficient for pre-GM200 chips. Practice hasn't lived up to that - a ton of people with a GTX 660's have issues with the nouveau fw being unstable, whose issues are fixed by the extracted firmware from the blob. -ilia _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
