Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH v3 6/9] drm/nouveau/graph: enable when using external firmware

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On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> nvc0_graph_ctor() would only let the graphics engine be enabled if its
>>> oclass has a proper microcode linked to it. This prevents GR from being
>>> enabled at all on chips that rely exclusively on external firmware, even
>>> though such a use-case is valid.
>>>
>>> Relax the conditions enabling the GR engine to also include the case
>>> where an external firmware has also been loaded.
>> I'm happy to take this patch as-is.  I do wonder if we should do
>> something like this though:
>>
>> if (nouveau_boolopt(device->cfgopt, "NvGrUseFW", oclass->fecs.ucode == NULL))
>>
>> Which will automatically switch to external firmware if there's no
>> internal implementation available.
>>
>> Thoughts?  This could be a separate patch even, if preferred.
>
> Sure, that should work. Do you mind if I come with a follow-up patch
> for this so I don't have to re-sent the current patch series? Since
> this is the only comment it received so far.
Yeah that's fine.  I suspect I'll merge this tomorrow, assuming no
further objections are raised.

Ben.

>
> Thanks,
> Alex.
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