On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:15:28AM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:52 PM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > gp104 refuses to switch to "graphic" mode and show anything past > > this line: > > > > fb0: switching to nouveaufb from EFI VGA > > > > Machine is fine, as it I can press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and reboot it > > normally. > > > > 5.5 is OK. 5.6 is broken. > > I've heard some issues relating to missing firmware lately. It should > work fine without firmware, but perhaps that got broken. Can you log > into the machine and check dmesg to see what's there? My guess is that > nouveau takes over from efifb, and then fails to load at some point in > the middle. I've fixed the issue by including all firmware until "failed to load" messages disappeared. X works and fbconsole on VT1-VT6 works too. CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="nvidia/gp104/gr/sw_nonctx.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/sw_ctx.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/sw_method_init.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/fecs_bl.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/fecs_inst.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/fecs_data.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/fecs_sig.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/gpccs_bl.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/gpccs_inst.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/gpccs_data.bin nvidia/gp104/gr/gpccs_sig.bin nvidia/gp104/sec2/image.bin nvidia/gp104/sec2/desc.bin nvidia/gp104/sec2/sig.bin nvidia/gp104/acr/ucode_load.bin nvidia/gp104/acr/ucode_unload.bin nvidia/gp104/acr/bl.bin nvidia/gp104/acr/unload_bl.bin nvidia/gp104/nvdec/scrubber.bin" > > Bisecting is kinda painful with miscompilation and init/main.c breakage. > > > > BTW do I need all those megabytes of firmware? > > > > [ 0.923273] fb0: switching to nouveaufb from EFI VGA > > [ 0.923440] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: NVIDIA GP104 (134000a1) > > [ 1.026681] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: bios: version 86.04.1e.00.01 > > [ 1.026930] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: failed to load firmware "gr/sw_nonctx" > > [ 1.026934] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: gr: failed to load gr/sw_nonctx > > This is necessary to provide any sort of acceleration. Otherwise this > is just a dumb scanout engine. You only need the firmware for your > chipset, not all of it. OK, thanks! _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
