On Fri, December 29, 2017 11:56 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> Maybe its just a driver which can't find a blob - by itself the GPU
> should have this blob loaded on it by coreboot.
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101473
> Alex Deucher says that "Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting
> 0xaa55, got 0x0000" message can be ignored
>
>
> BTW this "0x0000" issue is not G505S specific, seems T400s also has it
> - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-05/msg00050.html

There were other issues with it too, like at one point the IRQ was set to
255 and it always an <unassigned> memory region. Hard to troubleshoot
without having it in front of you.

> There aren't many coreboot supported laptops with dual GPU perhaps
> thats why its not fixed yet

Probably this.

> Also, maybe it could be possible to somehow pass a copy of that
> vgabios blob from GRUB to a Linux kernel, so that its' driver detects this
> blob. If i'm not mistaken i've seen the people trying it for their Mac Pro
>  (similar problem but got another value, maybe 0xffff), forgot how its
> ended though
>
> The research about GPUs is not over, we are going to continue it soon ;)

Looking forward to it!


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