Bug#819535: Nouveau Driver Issue - FCODE ROM Bug Report

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Package: src:linux
Version: 3.18-1~exp1
User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Usertags: ppc64

Hi,

Regarding the issue with the nouveau drivers in vanilla kernels >
3.18.16 not being able to read the BIOS / DCB block out of the
OpenFirmware nVidia GPU FCODE ROM.

It seems that there has been some progress on this regression which
affected powermac's with nvidia gpu's.

A patch has been created and i have applied it to vanilla 4.3.0-rc4
kernel and it seems to fix this particular issue on my config (g5 quad
with quadro fx4500).

Please note for me the patch didnt apply cleanly, it needed some
patching by hand for hunks that were rejected for shadowof.c.

Please note that the fix hasn't hit mainline yet.

Link to original bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91319

link to patch:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~darktama/nouveau/commit/?id=5b5cc342d3154120f9bb5ca7839ab556e728c786

If interested, please look at the bug report for more info.

Cheers,
Peter