drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi
There appear to be a crop of new hardware where the vbios is not
available from PROM/PRAMIN, but there is a valid _ROM method in ACPI.
The data read from PCIROM almost invariably contains invalid
instructions (still has the x86 opcodes), which makes this a low-risk
way to try to obtain a valid vbios image.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76475
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.35+
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
index 83face3..2792069 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
@@ -389,9 +389,6 @@
acpi_status status;
acpi_handle dhandle, rom_handle;
- if (!nouveau_dsm_priv.dsm_detected && !nouveau_dsm_priv.optimus_detected)
- return false;
-
dhandle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
if (!dhandle)
return false;
