APUs (e.g. AMD Radeon 780M / HawkPoint, PCI 1002:1900) have no
dedicated VBIOS ROM chip. amdgpu_get_bios_apu() attempts four paths
before giving up:
1. ACPI VFCT table
2. VRAM BAR read
3. ROM BAR read
4. platform BIOS
On some systems all four fail:
- The VFCT table is absent or contains only the discrete GPU entry
(e.g. when a custom ACPI override is present for the dGPU only).
- The VRAM BAR is unmapped at probe time.
- The ROM BAR is zero (PCI firmware did not assign it; observed even
with pci=realloc,assign-busses).
- No platform BIOS mapping exists.
The driver then prints "Unable to locate a BIOS ROM" and refuses to
bind, leaving the APU completely unusable under Linux even though the
hardware is functional.
Add a fifth fallback: request a firmware file named
"amdgpu/<vendor>_<device>.bin" (e.g. "amdgpu/1002_1900.bin") via
request_firmware(). This allows a VBIOS image extracted from the
running hardware to be shipped as a firmware blob in /lib/firmware/ and
makes the binding succeed without any change to the ACPI tables.
The fallback is only reached if all existing paths have already failed,
so there is no regression risk for boards where VFCT or ROM BAR work.
Signed-off-by: Oz Tiram <[email protected]>
---
v2: Validate the fetched firmware with check_atom_bios() before accepting
it, consistent with all other VBIOS discovery paths. Save fw->size
before release_firmware() so it remains valid for the size check.
Release the buffer via amdgpu_bios_release() if validation fails.
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c
index aa039e148a5e..86064c753b09 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
* Jerome Glisse
*/
+#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include "amdgpu.h"
#include "atom.h"
@@ -457,6 +458,28 @@ static bool amdgpu_get_bios_apu(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
goto success;
}
+ {
+ const struct firmware *fw;
+ char fw_name[32];
+ size_t fw_size;
+
+ snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), "amdgpu/%04x_%04x.bin",
+ adev->pdev->vendor, adev->pdev->device);
+ if (request_firmware(&fw, fw_name, adev->dev) == 0) {
+ adev->bios = kmemdup(fw->data, fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ fw_size = fw->size;
+ release_firmware(fw);
+ if (!adev->bios || !check_atom_bios(adev, fw_size)) {
+ amdgpu_bios_release(adev);
+ } else {
+ adev->bios_size = fw_size;
+ dev_info(adev->dev, "Fetched VBIOS from
firmware file %s\n",
+ fw_name);
+ goto success;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
dev_err(adev->dev, "Unable to locate a BIOS ROM\n");
return false;
--
2.53.0
