This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/amdgpu: Remove check which is not valid for certain VBIOS
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: drm-amdgpu-remove-check-which-is-not-valid-for-certain-vbios.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From ab6613b7eaefe85dadfc86025e901c55d71c0379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Wang Ken.Wang@amd.com Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 14:48:50 +0800 Subject: drm/amdgpu: Remove check which is not valid for certain VBIOS
From: Ken Wang Ken.Wang@amd.com
commit ab6613b7eaefe85dadfc86025e901c55d71c0379 upstream.
Fixes vbios fetching on certain headless boards.
Signed-off-by: Ken Wang Ken.Wang@amd.com Acked-by: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bios.c @@ -59,12 +59,6 @@ static bool check_atom_bios(uint8_t *bio return false; }
- tmp = bios[0x18] | (bios[0x19] << 8); - if (bios[tmp + 0x14] != 0x0) { - DRM_INFO("Not an x86 BIOS ROM\n"); - return false; - } - bios_header_start = bios[0x48] | (bios[0x49] << 8); if (!bios_header_start) { DRM_INFO("Can't locate bios header\n");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Ken.Wang@amd.com are
queue-4.14/drm-amdgpu-correct-reference-clock-value-on-vega10.patch queue-4.14/drm-amdgpu-remove-check-which-is-not-valid-for-certain-vbios.patch