On 19 June 2015 at 15:22, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 19 June 2015 at 00:47, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> NVIDIA will officially start providing signed firmwares through >>> linux-firmware. Change the GR firmware lookup function to look them up >>> in addition to the extracted firmwares. >> I wonder if perhaps we should just replace the mechanism entirely, and >> remove the support for nouveau/fuc* as we add "official" support for >> NVIDIA's ucode. The existing code is actually partially broken >> anyway, and mostly works by luck and was intended as a development aid >> / workaround anyway. There are no chipsets (aside from GM2xx...) >> which we don't currently support using our own ucode, so the impact of >> removing it will be very minimal. >> >> Thoughts? > > I'm all for making things simpler, and if someone needs to use an > external firmware for a Nouveau-supported GPU they can always put it > under the nvidia/ firmware directory. So if you agree with it I will > remove support for firmwares in nouveau/ in GR. I am not sure whether > your statement also applies to other firmwares (falcon, xtensa)? I'd say leave the non-gr engines for now, at least until we know what NVIDIA plans on doing with dGPU firmwares. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
