radeon, amdgpu: Firmware is required for DRM and KMS on R600 onward
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 8 Jan 2013 03:25:52 +0000 (03:25 +0000)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 12:33:36 +0000 (12:33 +0000)
commite322f3eadbbb0e3ce9ee6e7cb3150799b3c4377e
tree06e5812d19d01e7539db75efd7b98595608887a9
parentb056d7ef65a8e537891c1cb52c6861cb55c657e3
radeon, amdgpu: Firmware is required for DRM and KMS on R600 onward

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/607194
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/607471
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/610851
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/627497
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/632212
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/637943
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/649448
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/697229
Forwarded: no

radeon requires firmware/microcode for the GPU in all chips, but for
newer chips (apparently R600 'Evergreen' onward) it also expects
firmware for the memory controller and other sub-blocks.

radeon attempts to gracefully fall back and disable some features if
the firmware is not available, but becomes unstable - the framebuffer
and/or system memory may be corrupted, or the display may stay black.

Therefore, perform a basic check for the existence of
/lib/firmware/{radeon,amdgpu} when a device is probed, and abort if it
is missing, except for the pre-R600 case.

Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name radeon-amdgpu-firmware-is-required-for-drm-and-kms-on-r600-onward.patch
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c